Skating involves any sports or recreational activity which consists of traveling on surfaces or on ice using skates, and may refer to:
Ice Skating
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Ice skating, moving on ice by using ice skates
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Figure skating, a sport in which individuals, duos, or groups perform on figure skates on ice
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Synchronized skating, a sport where between eight and sixteen perform together as a team
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Speed skating, a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates
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Short-track speed skating
Short-track speed skating is a form of competitive ice speed skating. In competitions, multiple skaters (typically between four and six) skate on an oval ice track with a length of . The rink itself is long by wide, which is the same size as a ...
, a form of competitive ice speed skating
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Tour skating, a sport and recreational form of long distance ice skating on natural ice
Hard surface
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Roller skating, the traveling on surfaces with roller skates
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Inline skating, traveling on surfaces with skates having one line of wheels
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Freestyle slalom skating, a field of inline skating that involves performing tricks around a straight line of equally spaced cones
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Vert skating, riding inline skates on a vert ramp
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Aggressive inline skating, inline skating executed on specially designed inline skates with focus on grinding and spins
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Inline speed skating, the roller sport of racing on inline skates
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Artistic roller skating, a sport similar to figure skating but where contestants run on roller skates instead of ice skates
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Road skating
Road skating is the sport of skating (inline skating or quad roller skating) on roads, much like road cycling. It shares much with inline speed skating.
Roadskaters often skate in tight packs, drafting each other and sharing the lead, which a ...
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Skateboarding
Skateboarding is an extreme sport, action sport originating in the United States that involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard, as well as a recreational activity, an art form, an entertainment industry Profession, job, and a ...
, an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard
Snow
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Snow skating
A snowskate is a hybrid of a skateboard and a snowboard, intended primarily to allow for skateboard-style tricks on the snow. There are many types depending on the brand or style of snowskate.
History and design
The first snowskate traces i ...
, using a hybrid of a skateboard and a snowboard on snow
See also
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Outline of sports
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Skate (disambiguation)
Skate or Skates may refer to: Fish
*Skate (fish), several genera of fish belonging to the family Rajidae
* Pygmy skates, several genera of fish belonging to the family Gurgesiellidae
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Skating rink (disambiguation)
Skating rink may refer to:
* Ice rink, a surface of ice used for ice skating
* Roller rink, a surface used for roller skating
* ''Skating Rink'', a 1922 ''symphonie chorégraphique'' by Honegger
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Skater (disambiguation)
Skater may refer to:
Sports
*Someone who practices skateboarding
*Someone who practices roller skating
*Someone who practices inline skating
* Someone who practices ice skating
*An ice hockey player who is not a goaltender
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Skating system The skating system is a method of compiling scores in ballroom dance competitions. It is used for the final placings of competitors and is based upon a method that prioritises 'majority' and 'overall performance' as given by judges scores to solve ...
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