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skating

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skating: see ice skating ice skating, gliding along an ice surface on keellike runners known as ice skates.

Skating as a Sport



Skating, besides being an important form of winter recreation and the essential skill in the game of ice hockey (see hockey, ice ) has developed
..... Click the link for more information. ; ice dancing ice dancing, ice-skating competition in which couples are required to perform dance routines to music. The sport gained popularity in the 1930s and the first world championships were held in 1950.
..... Click the link for more information. ; roller skating roller skating, gliding on a hard, smooth, durable surface on skates with rollers or wheels, in recent years has become a popular adult sport. Skates mounted on wooden rollers date from the 1860s, and soon wooden wheels replaced the rollers.
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skating

Sport in which bladelike runners or sets of wheels attached to shoes are used for gliding on ice or on surfaces other than ice. See figure skating, ice dancing, ice hockey, roller-skating, speed skating.



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I came down here this morning, thinking that the skating world was all a-bed, to practice in secret.
An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
My sister hopes we shall have some skating as well as dancing.
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
At eight o'clock, after the morning train had passed, he put a pair of skates in his pocket and went up to Waterworks Pond but did not go skating.
Winesberg, Ohio by Anderson, Sherwood View in context
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