Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fancy skating in which figures of various kinds are described on the ice by the skater.
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Examples
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What's next for Attorney General Eric Holder and Sen. Orrin Hatch—an investigation into the judging protocol for figure-skating competitions?
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He tucked the ball and put a spin move on Dolphins linebacker Kevin Burnett that was so beautiful it might have earned raves from figure-skating judges.
Who's Better: Tebow or Palmer? Reed Albergotti 2011
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Q: At last month's U.S. figure-skating Olympic trials, did NBC really offer judges there the chance to audition for their very own NBC late-night talk shows?
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NBC's Dick Button, talking to Al Michaels about pairs figure-skating, noted the limits of even NBC's Olympic TV tonnage: Don't get me started on talking about costumes.
Vancouver ratings not measuring up to Salt Lake's 2002 numbers 2010
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I don't have any tennis gifs, so have a figure-skating gif (Yagudin was actually my favorite male figure-skater when I was a kid, so it is posted with affection):
you know you're looking at a winner, winner, winner intertribal 2010
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TV households on the first night of women's figure-skating at the 2006 Winter Games.
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Mr. Weir recently announced his plan to return to figure-skating competitively and train for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Skaters Share Champagne on Ice Mike Vilensky 2012
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Forget figure-skating: these fast-gliding girls are both aggressive and self-expressive, so expect fishnets and nose rings alongside the kneepads and helmets.
This week's new events Iain Aitch 2010
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Walker was a founder member of the world's first figure-skating club, which could only exercise when the loch froze.
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I don't have any tennis gifs, so have a figure-skating gif (Yagudin was actually my favorite male figure-skater when I was a kid, so it is posted with affection):
intertribal: you know you're looking at a winner, winner, winner intertribal 2010
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