Category: Ice Skating

Categories: Sports

Ice skating is the self-propulsion of a person across a sheet of ice, using metal-bladed ice skates to glide on the ice surface. This activity can be carried out for various reasons, including recreation, sport, exercise, and travel. Ice skating may be performed on specially prepared ice surfaces (arenas, tracks, parks), both indoors and outdoors, as well as on naturally occurring bodies of frozen water, such as ponds, lakes and rivers.

A number of recreational and sporting activities take place on ice.

Ice hockey – fast-paced contact team sport, using a vulcanized rubber puck, usually played on a special ice hockey rink
Speed skating – competitive form of ice skating where contenders race over fixed distances, short track and long track versions
Figure skating – winter sport with four disciplines: men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating and ice dance
Bandy – contact team sport similar to ice hockey, but using a ball instead of a puck, and played on a large ice field
Rink bandy – a form of bandy that can be played on a standard ice hockey rink
Ringette – non-contact team sport using a small rubber ring instead of a ball or puck
Tour skating – recreational long-distance skating outdoors on open areas of natural ice
Ice cross downhill – competitive extreme sport featuring downhill skating on a walled track
Barrel jumping – speed skating discipline in which skaters jump over a length of multiple barrels

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