* 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 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 official terms by the Finnish Skating Union SLL-SLU of Finland

* 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 *,.

In Greek mythology Artemis was the leader ( ηγεμόνη: hegemone ) of the nymphs, who had similar functions with the Nordic Elves.

What they and many others of that generation in the Nordic countries had in common was that they started off from a classical education and were first designing in the so-called Nordic Classicism style – a style that had been a reaction to the previous dominant style of National Romanticism – before moving, in the late 1920s, towards Modernism.

He was also a member of the board of the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics ( Nordita ) from its inception in 1957, becoming its director in 1975.

On the Danish flag, the cross design, which represents Christianity, was subsequently adopted by the other Nordic countries ; Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Åland Islands and the Faroe Islands, as well as the Scottish archipelagos of Shetland and Orkney.

Finland also differed from the other Nordic countries in that the generational transition from the rural occupations to white-collar positions was more likely to be direct, bypassing manual occupations.

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.

After a decade or so, floorball began showing up in Nordic countries where the former schoolyard pastime was becoming a developed sport.

When the IFF was founded in 1986, the sport was played in mostly Nordic countries, Japan, and several parts of Europe.

This area was influenced by southern Scandinavian culture from as early as the late Nordic Bronze Age and early Pre-Roman Iron Age ( ca.

1300 BC ( period III ) and onwards was so considerable that this region is sometimes included in the Nordic Bronze Age culture.

The following year, a newspaper solicited eleven design proposals ( all but one of which was a Nordic cross ) and polled the people to determine the most popular.

There he met Rudolf Höss, who was later commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, and Walther Darré, whose book, The Peasantry as the Life Source of the Nordic Race, caught Hitler's attention, leading to his later appointment as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture.

Darré was a firm believer in the superiority of the Nordic race, and his philosophy was a major influence on Himmler.

Hedeby was the largest Nordic city during the Viking Age and used to be the oldest city in Denmark until the site became part of Germany.

The Nordic union was in a way formalized on June 17, 1397 by the Treaty of Kalmar, signed in the Swedish castle of Kalmar, on Sweden's south-east coast, in medieval times close to the Danish border.

Early on, Munk was a strong opponent of the German Occupation of Denmark ( 1940 – 1945 ), although he continually opposed the idea of democracy as such, preferring the idea of a " Nordic dictator " who should unite the Nordic countries and keep them neutral during periods of international crisis.

Latvia's principal river, the Daugava River, was at the head of an important mainland route from the Baltic region through Russia into southern Europe and the Middle East used by the Vikings and later Nordic and German traders.

Longships were sea vessels made and used by the Vikings from the Nordic countries for trade, commerce, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age although scientific analysis of the oak timber shows at least one well known ship was built in Dublin, Ireland.

A member of the Piast dynasty, he was son of Siemomysł ; grandchild of Lestek ; father of Bolesław I the Brave, the first crowned King of Poland ; likely father of Świętosława ( Sigrid ), a Nordic Queen ; and grandfather of her son, Cnut the Great.

The military alliance in 1208 and later conversion from Greek Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism of the Principality of Tālava was the only peaceful subjugation of the Baltic tribes during the Nordic crusades.

A second meaning of the term social conservatism developed in the Nordic countries and continental Europe.

Even though being a neighbour to the mighty Soviet Union sometimes resulted in overly cautious concern in foreign policy (" Finlandization "), Finland developed closer co-operation with the other Nordic countries and declared itself neutral in superpower politics.

* Nordic race, a race from the fictional Elder Scrolls game series, developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.

Also called cross-country, Nordic is the oldest form of skiing and was developed in Scandinavia as a way of travelling over snow.

Although finding it difficult to adjust to the " Nordic gloom " of Uppsala and its long winters, he developed close friendships with two other Frenchmen working in the city, biochemist Jean-François Miquel and physicist Jacques Papet-Lépine.

The original AVR MCU was developed at a local ASIC house in Trondheim, Norway called Nordic VLSI at the time, now Nordic Semiconductor, where Bogen and Wollan were working as students.

When the technology was sold to Atmel from Nordic VLSI, the internal architecture was further developed by Bogen and Wollan at Atmel Norway, a subsidiary of Atmel.

Gobineau's basic concept, as further refined and developed in Nazism, places the black Aboriginal Australians and " African savages " at the bottom of the hierarchy, while the white Northern and Western European Aryans ( consisting of Germans, Finnish, Swedish, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danish, British, French, Northern Italians, Irish and Dutch ) were at the top ; white olive-skinned Southern Europeans ( consisting of the Spanish, Southern Italians, Greeks and Portuguese, i. e. those of what is called the Mediterranean race, which was regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race ) in the upper middle ranks ; Slavs ( Even though the Slavs are white and of Indo-European ancestry, the Nazis placed them lower on the scale because they were regarded as primarily of the Alpine race rather than the Nordic race, and thus fit only to be peasants.

Proponents of Nordic theory further argued that Nordic peoples had developed innate toughness and determination due to the harsh, challenging climate in which they evolved.

Now, Savalen has also developed a football pitch, an arena for Nordic skiing and biathlon, roller skiing track, an alpine area, and of cross-country skiing tracks.

The Proto-Germanic language for example is deduced have developed in Scandinavia towards the end of the Nordic Bronze Age.

* The Nordic Integrated System, a type of ski binding in cross-country skiing developed by Rottefella

A second meaning of the term social conservatism developed in the Nordic countries and continental Europe.

In the schools, adolescent boys were presented with Nordic sagas as the illustration of Führerprinzip, which was developed with such heroes as Frederick the Great and Prince Otto Von Bismarck.

As agriculture developed in the Nordic communities so did the use of agricultural deities.

Nordic Walking's concept was developed on the basis of off-season ski-training activity.

It was developed by Polish game studio People Can Fly ( now a subsidiary of Epic Games ) and published by DreamCatcher Interactive ( now acquired by Nordic Games ).

The technique of clinker developed in the Nordic ( Germanic ) shipbuilding tradition as distinct from the Mediterranean mortise and tenon planking technique which was introduced to the provinces of the north in the wake of Roman expansion.

By this time, similar Game Jams had developed – in Lithuania, Toronto, Dallas, Boston, Ohio, and Nordic.

Because the medieval history of the Nordic countries was so closely related, their heraldic individuality developed rather late.

Before the First World War, völkisch thought had developed an attitude to the arts as the German ; that is, from an organically linked Aryan or Nordic community (), racially unpolluted and with its roots in the German soil of the Heimat ( homeland ).