Abstract: An ice skater's aid is provided, to facilitate a skater's putting on or taking off his ice skates. The aid takes a form, in a preferred embodiment, of a generally rectangular block-like article approximately coextensive in length with the boot or shoe of the ice skate, and has a continuous, longitudinal groove adapted to receive the blade of the skate. The groove or slot opens upwardly, running longitudinally and centrally of the article and being bounded on both sides by a protective pad having a corrugated or otherwise irregular surface. When the boot of an ice skate is supported upon the padded surface of the article, the skate blade, which may be sheathed by a conventional blade guard, is received in the groove or slot out of contact with adjacent surfaces. The device elevates the boot in respect to a floor upon which the aid is supported and offers a convenient means facilitating lacing or unlacing of the boot by users, particularly older or portly persons.