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Ice skating — is traveling on ice with skates, narrow (and sometimes parabolic) blade like devices moulded into special boots [cite web|last = van Voorbergen | first = Bert | title = The virtual ice Skates museum Ice skates and their history (1) | url =… … Wikipedia
ice-skating — iceˈ skating noun • • • Main Entry: ↑ice * * * ice skating noun [noncount] They use the frozen pond for ice skating. Let s go ice skating. • • • Main Entry: ↑ice skate … Useful english dictionary
ice-skating — ice ,skating noun uncount the activity of moving around on ice wearing ICE SKATES: Shall we go ice skating this afternoon? a. a sport in which people dance and perform exercises to music on ice wearing ICE SKATES … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
ice skating — ice skate ► NOUN ▪ a boot with a blade attached to the sole, used for skating on ice. ► VERB (ice skate) ▪ skate on ice as a sport or pastime. DERIVATIVES ice skater noun ice skating noun … English terms dictionary
Ice Skating — ▪ 2009 Introduction Figure Skating. Canada came away as the biggest winner at the 2008 International Skating Union (ISU) world figure skating championships, held in March in Göteborg, Swed., by capturing a gold, a silver, and a bronze… … Universalium
ice skating — There is prehistoric evidence for skating (with long bones for runners), and it is also known that the Vikings used iron skates. Known as a mode of winter travel in Britain since the early middle ages, skating started gaining social prestige… … Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture
ice-skating — also ice skating VERB: only cont If you go ice skating, you move about on ice wearing ice skates. This activity is also a sport. They took me ice skating on a frozen lake. Syn: skating N UNCOUNT Ice skating is also a noun. I love watching ice… … English dictionary
ice skating — noun skating on ice • Derivationally related forms: ↑ice skate • Hypernyms: ↑skating • Hyponyms: ↑figure skating * * * ˈice skating [ice skating] … Useful english dictionary
ice-skating — UK / US noun [uncountable] a) the activity of moving around on ice wearing ice skates Shall we go ice skating this afternoon? b) a sport in which people dance and perform exercises to music on ice wearing ice skates … English dictionary
ice skating — see ice skating … English dictionary
Ice Skating Institute — The Ice Skating Institute (formerly the Ice Skating Institute of America) is a trade association for ice rinks, and also an international governing body for recreational figure skating. It was founded in 1959 in order to promote skating as a… … Wikipedia
