Skating

Skating involves any sports or recreational activity which consists of traveling on surfaces or on ice using skates, and may refer to:

Ice skating

• 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
    • Synchronized skating, a sport where between eight and sixteen perform together as a team
  • Speed skating, a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates
    • Short-track speed skating, a form of competitive ice speed skating
  • 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
• 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
• Skating techniques