figure skating
noun
: skating characterized by the performance of various jumps, spins, and dance movements and formerly by the tracing of prescribed figures
figure skater
noun
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The moment Amber Glenn stepped onto the ice at figure skating’s world championships, fans began to wave American flags, from the lowest rows inside TD Garden to the highest rafters, where the jerseys of Boston’s sporting greats hang in honor.
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Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026
These will be the most spread-out Olympics in history, with Milan serving as a home base for hockey, figure skating and speedskating, and Cortina and a handful of other mountain clusters hosting skiing, snowboarding, biathlon, sliding sports and the new Olympic sport of ski mountaineering.
—CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
It’s been well over a decade since Team USA had a figure skating lineup as strong as the one traveling to the Milano Cortina Olympics this winter.
—Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
Liu, now 20, goes into next month’s Milano Cortina Olympic Games as the co-favorite with Glenn to become the first American to win the women’s figure skating competition in nearly a quarter-century, a gold medal quest that no one in the sport saw coming just 15 months ago.
—Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 26 Jan. 2026
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Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026
These will be the most spread-out Olympics in history, with Milan serving as a home base for hockey, figure skating and speedskating, and Cortina and a handful of other mountain clusters hosting skiing, snowboarding, biathlon, sliding sports and the new Olympic sport of ski mountaineering.
—CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
It’s been well over a decade since Team USA had a figure skating lineup as strong as the one traveling to the Milano Cortina Olympics this winter.
—Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
Liu, now 20, goes into next month’s Milano Cortina Olympic Games as the co-favorite with Glenn to become the first American to win the women’s figure skating competition in nearly a quarter-century, a gold medal quest that no one in the sport saw coming just 15 months ago.
—Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 26 Jan. 2026
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“Figure skating.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/figure%20skating. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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