* Nordic Figure Skating Championships, an annual invitational elite figure skating competition, open only to skaters from Nordic countries

Meanwhile advances in technology in the Nordic camp allowed for the development of special skis for skating and ski jumping.

* Stade Olympique de Chamonix-Cross-country skiing, Curling, Figure skating, Ice hockey, Military patrol, Nordic combined ( cross-country skiing ), and Speed skating

The area lends itself to a wide variety of outdoor sports, both winter ( ice hockey, Nordic and Alpine skiing, figure skating, and snowmobiling ) and summer ( trail running, hiking, camping, river and sea kayaking, sailing, windsurfing and road and mountain biking ).

Touring skates ( or Nordic skates ) are long blades that can be attached, via bindings, to hiking or cross-country ski boots and are used for tour skating or long distance skating on natural ice.

Figure skating was rejected by the organisers because they wanted to promote the Nordic Games.

Within an hour's drive of Saalfeld, there are multiple options for skiing, Nordic skiing, skating and indoor winter sports.

Where applicable, the same trails used in the summer for walking, jogging and inline skating can be used in the winter for Nordic skiing, snowshoeing and sometimes snowmobiling.

The Nordic style of tour skating is popular in the Nordic countries,

this style is often called Nordic skating.

While the Nordic skating usually involves choosing your own tours over the ice on lakes and the seas, in the Netherlands skaters follow marked routes on frozen canals and lakes.

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

Nordic skating is not known nor practised in the Netherlands.

Nordic skating usually involves choosing your own tours over the free ice in groups with all safety equipment.

Nordic skating is only practised on free and open ice, not in tracks nor other manmade iceways.

Two Tour skating styles: Netherlands ( left ) and Nordic ( right ), on a canal in Holland

* Nordic skating Association of Finland

Century Sports teams include dance, bowling, football, tennis, wrestling, swimming, cross country running, soccer, softball, baseball, basketball, golf, hockey, volleyball, track and field, Nordic / cross country skiing *, rowing *, and figure skating *,.

Furthermore, Danish is one of the official languages of the European Union and one of the working languages of the Nordic Council.

Under the Nordic Language Convention, citizens of the Nordic countries speaking Danish have the opportunity to use their native language when interacting with official bodies in other Nordic countries without being liable for any interpretation or translation costs.

During the Cold War, Finland's foreign policy was based on official neutrality between the Western powers and the Soviet Union, while simultaneously stressing Nordic cooperation in the framework of the Nordic Council and cautious economic integration with the West as promoted by the Bretton-Woods Agreement and the free trade treaty with the European Economic Community.

The Porvoo Common Statement is a report issued at the conclusion of theological conversations by official representatives of four Anglican Churches and eight Nordic and Baltic Lutheran Churches in 1989 – 1992.

The first larger Transformers convention in the Nordic countries is called " The NTFA Mini-Con ", with official support from Hasbro Nordic, and was held by members of the NTFA-The Nordic TransFans Association, for the first time on November 3 – 4, 2007.

The second NTFA convention with official support from Hasbro Nordic, now renamed " NordCon " ( to avoid copyright problems with the name " Mini-Con ") was held in Aalborg, Denmark from 19 June to 20 June 2010.

Today, the term lives on in the official names of national legislatures and political and judicial institutions in the Nordic countries, in the Manx form tyn, as a term for the three legislative bodies on the Isle of Man, and in the English term husting.

* Nordic Catholic Church official website

The first official Sámi flag was recognized and inaugurated on August 15, 1986 by the 13th Nordic Sami Conference in Åre, Sweden.

# The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1941 were declared a non-event by the FIS at their 1946 meeting and their results have been struck from the official records.

The Nordic swan is the official ecolabel in Nordic countries.

The Swedish Language Council has its roots in the attempt to assert control over the official language use among the Nordic countries.

* Kraft Foods Nordic official website

* Extensive compilation of official and non-official Nordic Cross flags ( at Flags of the World ).

Hans Basbøll ( July 12, 1943 -), (), Danish linguist and professor of Nordic languages at the University of Southern Denmark since 1975, member of Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab since 1991 and member of Dansk Sprognævn, the official regulatory body of Danish, from 1991-97.

Biotech Sweden is also official media partner of the largest life science, labtech and medtech fairs of the Nordic countries: Biotech Forum and Skandinaviska Laboratoriedagarna.

The official translation of Suomen Keskusta, literally Centre of Finland is Centre Party in Finland, which gives the idea of global centre movement, which did exist between the world wars in its Agrarian forms mainly only in the Nordic countries and Bulgaria.

This gives some areas a distinctly " Nordic " feel in terms of house and street design.

It is the largest airport in Sweden, and the third largest airport in the Nordic countries, and the second busiest in terms of international passengers.

Gløgg, glögg, and similar words are the terms used for mulled wine in the Nordic countries ( sometimes misspelled as glog or glug ).

In foreign policy, he initially sought an alliance of Nordic countries, but without success, instead maintaining strict neutrality while building up among the most impressive armed forces in the world ( surpassed only by the United States, the Soviet Union and Israel in terms of per-capita spending ), making the Swedish Air Force the third largest in the world, while ultimately rejecting nuclear capability, signing the nuclear non-proliferation treaty in 1968.

Iceland and the Faroe Islands are not a part of Scandinavia ( although they are Nordic countries ), but should nevertheless be regarded as Scandinavian in folkloric terms.

Many of the terms in Nordic beliefs are used for different kinds of creatures, and to really know what is meant, one usually needs to put them into context.

It is the seventh largest bank in the Nordic countries in terms of market capitalization.

Scandinavism and Nordism are interchangeable terms for the literary, linguistic and cultural movement that focuses on promoting a shared Nordic past, a shared cultural heritage, a common Nordic mythology and a common linguistic root in Old Norse, and which led to the formation of joint periodicals and societies in support of Scandinavian literature and languages.

Hauge was involved in the establishment of the Norwegian state oil company Statoil, which currently is the largest Nordic company in terms of revenue, and in the startup of the airline Scandinavian Airlines System where he was a board member for more than 20 years.