Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word SKATING

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Definitions of SKATING

1. The action of moving along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
2. inflection of skate
3. (uncountable) The sport of moving along a surface using skates.
4. (skiing, uncountable) A method of propulsion, where one moves similar to how a skater propels themselves. A technique in skiing, where a ski is planted diagonally, to push off of, and one slides forward on the ski facing straight forward, and then repeats the process with the swapping of the feet's actions.

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Examples of Using SKATING in a Sentence

• Sarah Abitbol, pairs figure skater (with Stéphane Bernadis); World Figure Skating Championship bronze.
• The Olympic disciplines are men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance; the four individual disciplines are also combined into a team event, which was first included in the Winter Olympics in 2014.
• Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.
• Ice skating is the self-propulsion and gliding of a person across an ice surface, using metal-bladed ice skates.
• Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates.
• The original five Winter Olympic Sports (consisting of nine disciplines) were bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey, Nordic skiing (consisting of the disciplines military patrol, cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, and ski jumping), and skating (consisting of the disciplines figure skating and speed skating).
• His father competed in Nordic combined and cross-country skiing events in the 1964 Winter Olympics, and his grandfather, Jack Shea, won two gold medals in the 1932 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid in speed skating.
• Artificial ice can be used to provide ice rinks for ice skating, ice hockey, para ice hockey, ringette, broomball, bandy, rink bandy, rinkball, and spongee in a milder climate.
• Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing.
• 0s for his free skating after World Champion Plushenko had made several errors in both the short program and the free skating.
• Figure skating jumps are an element of three competitive figure skating disciplines: men's singles, women's singles, and pair skatingbut not ice dancing.
• Spins are an element in figure skating in which the skater rotates, centered on a single point on the ice, while holding one or more body positions.
• This form of speed skating was mainly practised in the United States and Canada, as opposed to the international form (derived from Europe), where athletes skated in pairs.
• Prior to that season, she had not competed in long track speed skating competitions for several years, and had only taken up practice again shortly before the Dutch trials in late 2001.
• Born in Portland, Oregon, Harding was raised by her mother, who enrolled her in ice skating lessons when Tonya was 3 years old.
• He started his sports career as a cyclist, but switched to speed skating and became the second Dutch speed skater to win a world title, in 1905.
• Ice skates are metal blades attached underfoot and used to propel the bearer across a sheet of ice while ice skating.
• The Indy grab is one of the basic tricks in vert skating and is usually combined with spins, kickflips and heelflips.
• Orr used his skating speed, scoring, and play-making abilities to revolutionize the position of defenceman.
• The community centre provides facilities for lacrosse, hockey and skating and can accommodate banquet seating up to 250 people.

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