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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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Compulsory figures
Sports; Figure skating
These include edges, steps and turns that are performed at specific points on the skating surface.
Blade
Sports; Figure skating
This is the piece of metal that is on the bottom of a skate that allows a skater to glide over the ice.
Axel jump
Sports; Figure skating
The name Axel comes from the inventor of the jump, Axel Paulsen who was Norwegian. The skater while moving forward takes off on an outside edge of a skate, they rotate in the air one and one-half ...
Accountant
Sports; Figure skating
This is the official who is responsibility it is to collect the different judges scores and then calculate the scores and determine the standings of each skater.
Backward pumping
Sports; Figure skating
This is a description of a skater using their outside leg to push off the ice while gliding along the ice on the outside edge of their inside skate.
