Adjusted balance after skating originally looked hard (6)
I believe the answer is:
stared
'looked hard' is the definition.
(to stare is to look hard at something)
'adjusted balance after skating originally' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'balance' could be 'tare' (tare is a kind of balance) and 'tare' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for stared that I've seen before include "Gaped" , "Looked hard and fixedly" , "Gazed intently at" , "Looked at long and fixedly" , "Gazed at in steady or prolonged way" .)