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Ice rink. An ice rink (or ice skating rink) is a frozen body of water and/or an artificial sheet of ice where people can ice skate or play winter sports. Ice rinks are also used for exhibitions, contests and ice shows. The growth and increasing popularity of ice skating during the 1800s marked a rise in the deliberate construction of ice rinks ...
Ice skating is the self-propulsion and gliding of a person across an ice surface, using metal-bladed ice skates. People skate for various reasons, including recreation (fun), exercise, competitive sports, and commuting. Ice skating may be performed on naturally frozen bodies of water, such as ponds, lakes, canals, and rivers, and on human-made ...
Left to right, top to bottom: bobsleigh, curling, figure skating, ice hockey, skiing, and snowboarding. Winter sports or winter activities are competitive sports or non-competitive recreational activities which are played on snow or ice. [1] Most are variations of skiing, ice skating and sledding. Traditionally, such games were only played in ...
The ISU Judging System (IJS) is the scoring system that has been used since 2003 to judge the figure skating disciplines of men's and women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. It was designed and implemented by the International Skating Union (ISU), the ruling body of the sport, and is used in all international competitions sanctioned by ...
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 to proliferate the building of permanent indoor ice rinks, [1] which numbered fewer than 100 at the time, as well as to promote skating ...
New Yorkers are ice skating in tank tops as Bryant Park Christmas market opens amidst heat wave. At Bryant Park, Christmas is in the air — even if the air is a balmy 80 degrees. Temps in the ...
Ice skating, moving on ice by using ice skates. Figure skating, a sport in which individuals, duos, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. Synchronized skating, a sport where between eight and sixteen perform together as a team. Speed skating, a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain ...
They say good things come to those that wait – and the wait has certainly been worth it for the USA’s figure skating team. At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the US finished second behind ...