Green’s Dictionary of Slang

skating adj.

[skate v.1 (2)]

describing a despised person, lazy, shirking, idle.

[US]R. Roth Sand in the Wind 21: ‘Who’s Childs?’ ‘Just the skatingest mother fucker in the Marine Corps. He spends more time in the rear than the office poags.’ [Ibid.] 222: I thought you got a real skating job.