The word 'skating' is a correct and commonly used term in written English.
It is a noun that refers to the activity or sport of moving on a surface of ice, snow, concrete, or other material with skates. It can also refer to the action of gliding or sliding smoothly and gracefully. Example: "I love going skating on the frozen pond near my house during the winter. It's such a fun and exhilarating activity."
The waterfront has been redeveloped and the park totally remodelled – it is now packed with families strolling in the summer sunshine or skating on its frozen paths, depending on the time of year.
"We want the things you get in an urban plaza, like benches, steps and ledges, that create the right texture and atmosphere for skating".
We have a variety of after-school activities, such as music and Zumba; some children go skating, make contact with their family or go to Scouts.
Stinky Sjinkie took the latter route after Russia's Viktor Ahn swept past him in the dying stages of the men's 5,000m relay final in January's European short track skating championships in Dresden.
It also turns out that a photo of me (above), taken in 1976 by a friend, Tim Boyce, who went on to be one of the UK's pioneering skateboard photographers, which I'd forgotten about for more than 35 years until I was sent it last week, is one of the few that survive of the early days of skating on the South Bank.
Analysts said it was clear Athens's close call with bankruptcy had begun to focus minds as public coffers have emptied in recent weeks, sending the country skating close to the edge of default.
Across the continent in Sochi, Sven Kramer, the reigning king of Dutch skating and currently ranked the second-fastest all-around skater of all time, was about to skate the 5,000 metres.It wasn't much of a contest: Mr Kramer set an Olympic record of 6 10.76.
Havana is full of quadrilingual taxi drivers, lawyers who moonlight as prostitutes and roller-skating pizza waitresses with degrees in aeronautics.
Multimedia journalism student Mikenzie Frost said she was headed out the door to figure-skating practice early Tuesday when she got a text from the school saying it was closed.
(They showed pregnant women roller-skating or riding bucking broncos. You wouldn't take risks before your baby was born, the adverts intoned.
Each time Dutch television showed the king and queen smiling in the stands in Sochi, one had a nagging feeling that they were there to atone for all the diplomatic unpleasantness and to safeguard Dutch commercial interests.For the Dutch public, the speed-skating victories seemed to dissolve the tension.
