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speed skat·ing
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speed skatingnoun
competitive skating on speed skates (usually around an oval course)
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speed skatingnoun
The sport of racing around an oval course, on ice skates.
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speed skating
Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which participants race each other on long straight sections and curves, typically on an oval track. The goal is to complete the set distance in the fastest time possible. It is an official sport in the Winter Olympic Games, with numerous variations including sprint distances, middle distances, and long distances.
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Speed skating
Speed skating, or speedskating, is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating. In the Olympic Games, long-track speed skating is usually referred to as just "speed skating", while short-track speed skating is known as "short track". The ISU, the governing body of both ice sports, refers to long track as "speed skating" and short track as "short track skating". The standard rink for long track is 400 meters long, but tracks of 200, 250 and 333⅓ meters are used occasionally. It is one of two Olympic forms of the sport and the one with the longer history. An international federation was founded in 1892, the first for any winter sport. The sport enjoys large popularity in the Netherlands and Norway. There are top international rinks in a number of other countries, including Canada, the United States, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Russia. A World Cup circuit is held with events in the those countries and with two events in Thialf, the ice hall in Heerenveen, Netherlands. The sport is described as "long track" in North American usage, to distinguish it from a 111 m oval on an ice hockey rink in short-track skating or on a short-track oval.
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The numerical value of speed skating in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of speed skating in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of speed skating in a Sentence
In speed skating, we fight against time, not against an opponent, it was purely an emotional reaction.
It’s probably not a news flash to tell you the Dutch are really, really good at speed skating. … ‘Why are they so good?’ you may be asking yourself, because skating is an important mode of transportation in a city like Amsterdam.
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- rychlobrusleníCzech
- EisschnelllaufGerman
- patinaje de velocidadSpanish
- kiiruisutamineEstonian
- pikaluisteluFinnish
- patinage de vitesseFrench
- gyorskorcsolyaHungarian
- pattinaggio di velocitàItalian
- スピードスケートJapanese
- 스피드스케이팅Korean
- брзо лизгањеMacedonian
- hurtigløp på skøyterNorwegian
- łyżwiarstwo szybkiePolish
- patinação de velocidadePortuguese
- конькобежный спортRussian
- skridsko, skridskosportSwedish
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