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2. Friese doorloper - Wikipedia

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   Old wooden skates (not Friese doorlopers) that are tied under the shoe with ribbons. The Friese doorloper is a type of ice skate from the Netherlands. Friese means "Frisian" ("of Friesland"), and doorloper "to walk" or "run through", reflecting the design. It consists of a shaped length of wood secured to a metal blade of the same length to ...

3. Ice skate - Wikipedia

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   Ice skating in Graz in 1909 Medieval bone skates on display at the Museum of London German ice skates from the 19th century, the boot came separately. According to a study done by Federico Formenti, University of Oxford, and Alberto Minetti, University of Milan, Finns were the first to develop ice skates some 5,000 years ago from animal bones. [2]

4. Snowskates - Wikipedia

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   Snowskates were invented in The Netherlands, and originally consisted of a simple wood runner that was tied to the users boots around 1865. [1] The earliest versions came in many varieties and they were mostly custom-made as opposed to commercially produced. The more well-known, commercially produced models came from Germany in the 1950s. The ...

5. Inline skates - Wikipedia

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   Inventors simply referred to their contraptions as wheeled alternatives to ice skates. All known novelty skates had wheels aligned in a single line. Skates were simply assumed to have a single runner, whether a steel blade on an ice skate, or a row of wheels on a wheeled skate. This state of affair continued through 1960. [A] [20] [12]: 8–13

6. Mission Hockey - Wikipedia

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   Mission Hockey is an American brand of inline skates currently owned by Bauer Hockey. In December 1994, three former Bauer employees founded the Dare Development Group and began producing roller hockey equipment under the Mission brand name. In December 1997, Dare changed its name to the Mission Hockey Company after it expanded to ice hockey.

7. Figure skate - Wikipedia

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   Figure skates are a type of ice skate used by figure skaters. The skates consist of a boot and a blade that is attached with screws to the sole of the boot. Inexpensive sets for recreational skaters are available, but most figure skaters purchase boots and blades separately and have the blades mounted by a professional skate technician.