Ice skating is the recreation and sport of gliding across an ice surface
on blades fixed to the bottoms of skates. The activity of ice skating has given
rise to two distinctive sports: figure skating, which involves the performance of various jumps, spins,
and dance movements; and speed skating and short-track
speed skating, both of which are forms of racing on
ice skates.
Ice skating probably
developed in Scandinavia as early as 1000 BCE, the first skates being made from
shank or rib bones of elk, oxen, reindeer, and other animals.
There is a type of figure
skating that is the most contemporary figure skating and consists in
interpreting a piece of musical skating on an ice rink and doing pirouettes,
turns, jumps and acrobatics. Later it is valued by some judges.
There are also more types of ice skating. Speed
skating, short track- speed skating…
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