How to Use speed skating in a Sentence

speed skating

noun
  • There is much more to speed skating than meets the eye.
    Chris Ochsner, kansascity, 19 Feb. 2018
  • There are two types of speed skating: long track and short track.
    Alexa Tucker, SELF, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The hockey may have been indoors, but the speed skating events were not.
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2020
  • The speed skaters are elite, and some of them will make the transition to speed skating on ice for the Winter Olympics.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 6 July 2022
  • And there are plenty of places to practice speed skating, with 20 long track ice rinks.
    Alana Abramson, Time, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Bonnie Blair has five gold medals from speed skating as well.
    Chris Chavez, SI.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Members of Team USA’s men’s and women’s long track speed skating teams aim to get on the podium in 2018.
    Jennifer Calfas, Time, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Short track speed skating first debuted as a full Olympic sport at the 1992 Winter Games in France.
    Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Renee Hildebrand, the coach of the U.S. inline speed skating team said about the huge dining hall that was about the size of one and a half soccer fields.
    Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
  • But Couric was at least right about the Netherlands’ dominance in speed skating.
    Alana Abramson, Time, 14 Feb. 2018
  • There's speed skating, bobsled, even the ski jump, all of which are high speed and just one bad lean away from a dramatic crash.
    Luke Darby, GQ, 24 Feb. 2018
  • But not all the videos showing up between clips of ice hockey and speed skating were pro-China.
    Morgan Meaker, Wired, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Krueger won the medal in the men's 1,000-meter short track speed skating competition.
    Cheryl Wray, AL.com, 18 Feb. 2018
  • In Poland, ski jumping is probably one of the biggest sports, speed skating in the Netherlands.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Of its 53 medals, 42 have come in short-track speedskating, nine in long-track speed skating and two in figure skating.
    JerÉ Longman and Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Emery Lehman also represented the U.S. on the ice, winning a bronze team medal in speed skating.
    Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Pence then watched speed skating with his wife before boarding Air Force Two to return home.
    Author: Ashley Parker, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Another cool first-time event is mass start speed skating.
    Aaron Goldfarb, Esquire, 9 Feb. 2018
  • In second place is Sweden, which has taken gold in men's moguls freestyle skiing and men's speed skating.
    Grayson Quay, The Week, 6 Feb. 2022
  • The venues in Gangneung, a city on South Korea's east coast, are all indoors, hosts to hockey, figure skating, speed skating and the like.
    Barry Svrluga, chicagotribune.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Not just on the podium, either; team USA athletes competing in about half of the events, from track and field to soccer to speed skating, wear a Nike kit.
    Peter Rubin, Wired, 5 Feb. 2020
  • On the surface, Olympic ski jumping looks every bit as easy to score as speed skating or cross-country skiing.
    Dan Gartland, SI.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Alvarez’s body of work—a combination of speed skating and baseball is just plain wild.
    Sean Gregory / Tokyo, Time, 21 July 2021
  • Jackson, 29, is just months removed from winning the speed skating World Cup, becoming the first Black woman to do so.
    Christopher Brito, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Four-time speed skating world champion Brittany Bowe is favored to take gold at the Beijing Olympics next month.
    Macaela MacKenzie, SELF, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Bowe currently holds the world record in 1,000 meters and is a former world champion in speed skating.
    Christopher Brito, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Kim competed in the 3,000 meter short-track speed skating relay event.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2022
  • What may be a little more buried in history is Oconomowoc's connection to Olympic speed skating.
    Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2018
  • The boys enjoyed inline skating, and John Sullivan and one of his brothers later switched to the ice and began speed skating.
    Tom Jackman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2021
  • According to the Olympics, the games will feature new mixed teams in snowboarding, freestyle skiing, short-track speed skating and ski jumping.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 27 July 2021

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