Central Park, New York City, Winter: The Skating Pond, 1862 by Currier and Ives.

By 1642, the first official skating club, The Skating Club Of Edinburgh, was born, and, in 1763, the world saw its first official speed skating race, on the Fens in England organized by the National Ice Skating Association.

At this point, the International Skating Union began to try to restrain theatricality in ice dancing, first by attempting to return it to its ballroom roots by adding more restrictions on music and dance holds.

Although Figure Skating had been an Olympic event in both London and Antwerp, and Ice Hockey had been an event in Antwerp, the winter sports had always been rather limited by the season.

* First ice hockey league in Europe begins, contested by five teams from Princes Skating Club and Hengler's Ice Rink, both in London.

The World Figure Skating Championships (" Worlds ") is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.

* Squirrel Goes Skating, written by Alison Uttley, read by Wendy Hiller

Produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, the Sounds of Blackness won three Grammy Awards for their music and have performed three times for audiences of 1 billion: at the 1994 World Cup, the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 1998 World Figure Skating Championships.

The Canadian Figure Skating Association invited the pair to compete at Skate Canada, where they immediately made a statement by placing second in the short program, ahead of reigning Canadian Champions Kristy Sargeant and Kris Wirtz, and third in the long program to win the bronze medal.

Referees for international events are trained by the International Skating Union.

** Skating on the Edge by d. g. k.

The World Single Distance Championships are a series of speed skating competitions organised by the International Skating Union.

March 25th, 2001, the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs gain the first NCAA division I Women Championship by a victory 4-2 against St. Lawrence Skating Saints.

* Skating: A common fallacy is that the goaltender can get by with merely adequate skating, and often young players are placed in net because of their poor skating.

The IcePlex hosts hockey tournaments and hockey camps as well as ice skating shows by the IcePlex Skating Club.

* Santa Claus Cup, an annual international figure skating competition organized by the Hungarian National Skating Federation

Examples include swimming and water polo ( disciplines of Aquatics, represented by the International Swimming Federation ), or figure skating and speed skating ( disciplines of Skating, represented by the International Skating Union ).

Skating in the 19th century, 1862 lithograph

Specific figure skates were created in response to the rise of figure skating's popularity in the 19th century, coinciding with the beginnings of formalized competitions such as the World Figure Skating Championships.

Nordic skating was developed during the 1900s in Sweden from the original Dutch Skating which is another sport.

In the Netherlands, the Dutch skating is called Toerschaatsen, where skaters follow marked routes on frozen canals and lakes, which are coordinated by the Royal Netherlands Skating Union.

* Tour skating glossary in English, Swedish, Finnish, and Dutch from Linköping Skating Club ( LLK ) in Sweden

In early 2011 Bonjasky appeared on Season 4 of the Sterren Dansen op het IJs show, the Dutch version of Skating with Celebrities ( Dancing on Ice ), performing a figure skating routine with his Sapph fellow Inge de Bruijn.

Every year there are main skating events like the Dutch, European and World championships, and two Speed Skating World Cup events in Thialf.

The New York Shakespeare Festival, which is using the Wollman Memorial Skating Rink while its theatre near the Belvedere is being completed, began bravely.

The International Skating Union ( ISU ) regulates international figure skating judging and competitions.

* Acrobatic skating, also known as " Acrobatics on ice " or " Extreme Skating ", is a combination of circus arts, technical artistic gymnastics skills, and figure skating.

On March 3, 1875, the first organized indoor game was played at Montreal's Victoria Skating Rink between two sides of nine-player teams, including James Creighton and several McGill University students.

* 1994 – Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U. S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan.

* 1997 – Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion women's World Figure Skating Champion.

Skating as a form of transportation exposes the skateboarder to the dangers of other traffic.

International Skating Union rules allow some leeway in the size and radius of curves.

The Netherlands came back to the fore in 1889 and organized the very first world championships, and, subsequently, the ISU ( International Skating Union ) was born in 1892.

The Internationale Eislauf Vereinigung, now known as the International Skating Union, was founded at a meeting of 15 national representatives in Scheveningen in 1892, the first international winter sports federation.

* USOC: A Basic Guide to Speed Skating, Griffin Publishers-Torrance, Ca.

Skating skis are shorter than classical skis and do not need grip wax.

* April – The United States Figure Skating Association is formed.

* March 3 – The first organized indoor game of ice hockey is played between two teams at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal, Canada.

Next to the Ice Skating rink, there's a Multiplex cinema with twelve screens and there's a large campus where the most courses of Fontys in Tilburg are located.

Skating includes figure, ice hockey, and racing.

; Caster Skating: Similar to casterboarding, but the rider can move both feet independently.

2011 World Figure Skating Championships | 2011 World champion ice dancers Meryl Davis & Charlie White ( figure skater ) | Charlie White perform a dance lift.

It was first competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, but did not become a Winter Olympic Games medal sport until 1976.