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Skating involves any sports or recreational activity which consists of traveling on surfaces or on ice using skates.
There are several different kinds of skating :
Ice
- Ice skating, moving on ice by using ice skates
- Figure skating, a sport in which individuals, duos, or groups perform on figure skates on ice
- Speed skating, a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates
- Tour skating, a sport and recreational form of long distance ice skating on natural ice
Hard surface
- Roller skating, the traveling on surfaces with roller skates
- Inline skating, traveling on surfaces with skates having one line of wheels
- Freestyle slalom skating, a field of inline skating that involves performing tricks around a straight line of equally spaced cones
- Vert skating, riding inline skates on a vert ramp
- Aggressive inline skating, inline skating executed on specially designed inline skates with focus on grinding and spins
- Inline speed skating, the roller sport of racing on inline skates
- Artistic roller skating, a sport similar to figure skating but where contestants run on roller skates instead of ice skates
- Road skating, the sport of skating (inline skating or roller skating) on roads, much like road cycling. It shares much with inline speed skating
- Inline skating, traveling on surfaces with skates having one line of wheels
- Skateboarding, an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard
Snow
- Snow skating, using a hybrid of a skateboard and a snowboard on snow
See also
- Outline of sports
- Skate (disambiguation)
- Skating rink (disambiguation)
- Skater (disambiguation)
- Skating system
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