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Definition of Speed skater
1. Noun. An ice-skater who races competitively; usually around an oval course.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Speed Skater
Literary usage of Speed skater
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1900)
"For ordinarily the figure-skater, with his slow gyrations and ordered progress,
fears and hates the speed-skater. It is with equal distrust and dislike that ..."
2. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1898)
"NATURAL SELECTION, AS SHOWN IN THE TYPICAL SPEED-SKATER By R TAIT MACKENZIE, BA,
MDr Demonstrator of Anatomy, Medical Examiner, and Instructor in Gymnastics ..."
3. Skating by John Moyer Heathcote, C. G. Tebbutt, T. Maxwell Witham, Henry A. Buck, John Kerr, Ormond Hake (1892)
"Omne ignotum pro magnifico' is an aphorism inapplicable to the speed-skater who
after watching a ' combined figure' threw some coppers on the ice, ..."
4. The Bibliographer (1883)
"Full-page drawing of George Smart, the "Flying Fish," the 1878- Champion Speed
Skater. 1880. A Skating Party on the Schuylkill. A picture drawn by AB Frost. ..."
5. The Book of School and College Sports by Ralph Henry Barbour (1904)
"In the same way the speed skater per se, while more promising than the trick
skater, is not the best of material. In short, what is wanted when it comes to ..."
6. A Book of Winter Sports: An Attempt to Catch the Spirit of the Keen Joys of by J. C. Dier (1912)
"... supported by being set into a tube of steel; an expert speed skater will ride
upon such a skate for nineteen or twenty feet at a single stroke. ..."
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