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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Stroking

Sports; Figure skating

This is a way to gain speed using strides that go from one inside edge to the other. Might be used to gain speed before performing a jump.

Sweet spot

Sports; Figure skating

This is the place on a blade of a skate where a skater can balance when doing a spin.

Swizzle

Sports; Figure skating

This is a two-footed stride that moves a skater backward.

T-Stop

Sports; Figure skating

This is when a skater places their free foot at a right angle behind the lead skate so that it scrapes the ice and stops the skater.

Technique mark

Sports; Figure skating

These are the first two marks that are awarded in compulsory dance in the ice dancing competition. The judge's look to judge how difficult a programme is, variety in the program, how sure the skaters ...

Throw jump

Sports; Figure skating

This is a throw done in pairs skating in which the female skater is thrown in the air by the male skater and lands ahead of the male skater on a backward outside edge of a skate.

Twist list

Sports; Figure skating

During a pairs skating competition the male skater will lift and throw the female skater in the air. She will then do 2 revolutions and then the male skater will catch her and in one motion place her ...