Sentence examples for folk skating from inspiring English sources
(A wall label says this discrepancy might be Bellows's memory of the Palisades from the New Jersey side). In any case, he depicts a wilderness, but the foreground is filled with very fashionable folk, skating en masse.
Nevertheless it's the most physically trying exercise in the Winter Games: Unlike the 40-second sprinting bursts of hockey, these folks skate at high speeds for four minutes at a time.
"Is curling no' just ice skating for ugly folk?" asked another, who didn't want to be named.
In another nearby space called Wolfbat Studio, Dennis McNett sat surrounded by images from a mythical work he rendered in woodcut prints, liberally deploying motifs he conjures up from Nordic folk tales, skate culture and what looked like the world of biker tattoos.
Nearly every kind of footwear is represented in "Street Folk," roller skates and roller blades, pumps and stilettos, winter boots and cowboy boots, tennis shoes and high-tops and sandals and flip-flops.
Skating to a medley of Hungarian folk music, he received four 5.7's for presentation, the highest mark of the night.
Given all the scandals attached to the Olympic movement in recent years, the friendly folks from the International Olympic Committee could be putting pressure on the skating people to look as if they are doing something.
Then use the following factoids to guide you through conversations with folks who were glued to their seats when the Rangers were skating around Sweden in October.
"Most folks are surprised at how difficult skating is," said Tanya Douglas, director of the figure skating program at City Ice Pavilion.
