speed skating

noun

: the sport of racing on skates

speed skater noun

Examples of speed skating in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In Ohno’s own sport of short track speed skating, anything can go wrong in the jostling for position and the tiny margins of victory. —

Issy Ronald, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024 Salt Lake City was a compact Games, with mountain events located in close proximity to the city and to ice events like figure skating and short-track speed skating. —

Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 24 July 2024 Meanwhile, Ohno, 41, won eight Olympic medals over three Winter Games from 2002-2010 in short track speed skating. —

Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024 The 2030 Olympics site won’t be chosen until this summer, when the IOC meets during the Paris Summer Games, but it’s expected to be awarded to the area of the French Alps, with figure skating, speed skating, and hockey to be staged in Nice, in the south of France. —

Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for speed skating

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