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An act or spell of skating; one of a series of turns in figure-skating.
Skating. ‘A movement, or series of movements, beginning and ending at the centre’ (Badm. Libr., Skating 145). (In quot. 1854 with jocular allusion…
Subcategories:
— specific figure or movement (15)
— marking out of figure (1)
— order or manner of movements in figure (1)
— jump (7)