Figure skating

Figure skating

a sport and activity in which individuals, duos, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. The four Olympic disciplines are men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Non-Olympic disciplines include synchronized skating and four skating. In senior-level competition, skaters generally perform two programs (short and long) which, depending on the discipline, may include spins, jumps, moves in the field, lifts, throw jumps, death spirals, and other elements or moves.

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Draw

Sports; Figure skating

In each event in a figure skating competition the starting order is determined by a lottery or "draw." The referee or chair usually overseas the process in the presence of other judges during a ...

Edge

Sports; Figure skating

A skate blade has a grove running down its centre and each skate blade has two edges, one on each side of the groove. The blades have an inside edge and the outside edge, and each edge is divided ...

Free skate

Sports; Figure skating

There are no required elements in Free Skating. Like the Free Dance, skaters choose their music and choreography their own routine to show off their technical and artistic skills. The Free Skate is ...

Disciplines

Sports; Figure skating

In the Olympics there are four disciplines Men and Women's singles, Ice -dancing and Pairs Skating.

Hand-to-hand loop lift

Sports; Figure skating

This is where the man lifts his female partner, who is in front of him and is facing in the same direction, above his head. She stays facing in the same direction moves into a sitting position with ...

Helicopter

Sports; Figure skating

The man is skating backwards and the woman is skating facing forward, the man lifts the woman so she is parallel to the ice, with her back arched and her legs held in a V shape and then the man will ...