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ice skating
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activity on ice, either outdoors or indoors at a skating rink
Ice skating is a recreational activity where people glide across frozen water or specially prepared ice surfaces using skates—shoes with blades attached to the bottom. It can be done outdoors on frozen lakes or ponds, or indoors at skating rinks, making it an accessible winter pastime that many people enjoy for exercise, entertainment, and social reasons.
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Outdoor ice skaters in 1925 A postman in Germany during the winter of 1900 (stamp from 1994) Ice skating is the self-propulsion and gliding of a person across a flat ice surface, using metal-bladed ice skates. People skate for various reasons, including recreation (fun), exercise, competitive sports, and commuting. Ice skating may be performed on naturally frozen bodies of water, such as ponds, lakes, canals, and rivers, and on human-made ice surfaces both indoors and outdoors.
Natural ice surfaces used by skaters can accommodate a variety of winter sports which generally require an enclosed area, but are also used by skaters who need ice tracks and trails for distance skating and speed skating. Man-made ice surfaces include ice rinks, ice hockey rinks, bandy fields, ice tracks required for the sport of ice cross downhill, and arenas.