ABSP: Words - Skating

Culture > Sport > Skating

Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.

axel	in figure-skating, a jump from one skate to the other.
blader	a person skating with in-line skates.
bobskate	a child's skate having two parallel blades.
choctaw	(Am. Ind.) a movement in skating.
compulsory	obligatory (noun) an exercise comprising specified compulsory figures, movements or dances, eg in ice-skating
icekhana	an ice-skating competition.
lutz	a jump in figure-skating.
mohawk	(Am. Ind.) a movement in skating.
nonskater	one who is not a skater.
outskate	to surpass in skating.
rink	a place for ice-skating; (verb) to skate on a rink.
rollerblader	one who skates on rollerblades.
salchow	(Swedish) an ice-skating leap with turns from inner backward edge of one skate to outer backward edge of other.
skate	a shoe fitted with runners or wheels; (verb) to glide over ice or the ground on skates.
skater	one that skates.
speedskating	the sport of skating for speed.
walley	a type of jump in figure skating.

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