Skating Definition–noun | 3. | the blade of an ice skate. | | 4. | a skid on a lifeboat to facilitate launching from a listing ship. | –verb (used without object) | 5. | to glide or propel oneself over ice, the ground, etc., on skates. | | 6. | to glide or slide smoothly along. | | 7. | Slang. to shirk one's duty; loaf. | | 8. | (of the tone arm on a record player) to swing toward the spindle while a record is playing. | –verb (used w
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ith object) | 9. | to slide (a flat) across the floor of a stage. | —Idioms | 10. | get or put one's skates on, British Informal. to make haste. | | 11. | skate on thin ice, to be or place oneself in a risky or delicate situation: Taking a public stand on the question would be skating on thin ice. | |
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sport in which bladelike runners or sets of wheels attached to shoes are used for gliding on ice or other surfaces. See figure skating; ice hockey; roller-skating; speed skating.ice skating
the recreation and sport of gliding across an ice surface on blades fixed to the bottoms of shoes (skates). The activity of ice skating has given rise to two distinctive sports: figure skating, which ...
figure skating
sport in which ice skaters, singly or in pairs, perform freestyle movements of jumps, spins, lifts, and footwork in a graceful manner. Its name derives from the patterns (or figures) skaters make on ...
speed skating
the sport of racing on ice skates that originated in The Netherlands, possibly as early as the 13th century. Organized international competition developed in the late 19th century, and the sport was ...
roller-skating
recreational and competitive sport in which the participants use special shoes fitted with small wheels to move about on rinks or paved surfaces. Roller-skating sports include speed skating, hockey, ...
ICE SKATING
The worldwide expansion of ice skating continued in 1995 as Andorra, Cyprus, and Portugal increased the membership of the International Skating Union to 55 nations.ICE SKATING
A drift toward opening top figure skating competitions to previously recognized professional performers was significantly indicated by the declared readiness of the International Skating Union to ...
short-track speed skating
sport that tests the speed, technical skating ability, and aggressiveness of its competitors. Unlike traditional long-track speed skating, contestants race against each other instead of the clock.Figure Skating's New Judging System
The tidal wave of criticism spawned by the judging scandal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, prompted the International Skating Union (ISU) to devise a reformed judging system that ...
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