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Definition of Speed skating
1. Noun. Competitive skating on speed skates (usually around an oval course).
Definition of Speed skating
1. Noun. The sport of racing around an oval course, on ice skates. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Speed Skating
Literary usage of Speed skating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1897)
"speed skating. AM ANDERSON. Of speed skaters in America, Charles June, of Newburgh,
NY, was one of the first. His reputation as a skater began in 1838. ..."
2. Skating by John Moyer Heathcote, C. G. Tebbutt, T. Maxwell Witham, Henry A. Buck, John Kerr, Ormond Hake (1892)
"... two of whom should be appointed by the speed-skating and two by the figure-skating
department of the general committee ; (c) four members nominated by ..."
3. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1892)
"The blades of skates for speed-skating are made very thin, al)out Л1'1 °f an ...
Speed-skating as a pastime has lately come greatly into vogue owing to the ..."
4. Sportby C. M. van Stockum by C. M. van Stockum (1914)
"Speed-skating. — Figure- and fancy-skating. Foster (FW). ... Is I. Speed-skating
by CG Tebbutt. II. Figure-skating by Archibald Reed. III. ..."
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