Skating involves any sports or recreational activity which consists of traveling on surfaces or on ice using skates, and may refer to:

Ice skating

  • Ice skating, moving on ice by using ice skates
  • Figure skating, a sport in which individuals, duos, or groups perform on figure skates on ice
  • Synchronized skating, a sport where between eight and sixteen perform together as a team
  • Speed skating, a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates
  • Short-track speed skating, a form of competitive ice speed skating
  • Tour skating, a sport and recreational form of long distance ice skating on natural ice

Other hard surfaces

  • Roller skating, the traveling on surfaces with roller skates
  • Inline skating, traveling on surfaces with skates having one line of wheels
  • Freestyle slalom skating, a field of inline skating that involves performing tricks around a straight line of equally spaced cones
  • Vert skating, riding inline skates on a vert ramp
  • Aggressive inline skating, inline skating executed on specially designed inline skates with focus on grinding and spins
  • Inline speed skating, the roller sport of racing on inline skates
  • Artistic roller skating, a sport similar to figure skating but where contestants run on roller skates instead of ice skates
  • Road skating
  • Skateboarding, an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard

Snow

  • Snow skating, using a hybrid of a skateboard and a snowboard on snow

See also

  • Outline of sports
  • Skate (disambiguation)
  • Skating rink (disambiguation)
  • Skater (disambiguation)
  • Skating system
  • Skating techniques