Skating

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Skating involves any sports or recreational activity which consists of traveling on surfaces or on ice using skates.

There are several different kinds of skating :

Ice

Ice skating, moving on ice by using ice skates
- Figure skating, a sport in which individuals, duos, or groups perform on figure skates on ice
- Speed skating, a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates
- Tour skating, a sport and recreational form of long distance ice skating on natural ice

Roller skating, the traveling on surfaces with roller skates
- Inline skating, traveling on surfaces with skates having one line of wheels
  - Freestyle slalom skating, a field of inline skating that involves performing tricks around a straight line of equally spaced cones
  - Vert skating, riding inline skates on a vert ramp
  - Aggressive inline skating, inline skating executed on specially designed inline skates with focus on grinding and spins
  - Inline speed skating, the roller sport of racing on inline skates
- Artistic roller skating, a sport similar to figure skating but where contestants run on roller skates instead of ice skates
- Road skating, the sport of skating (inline skating or roller skating) on roads, much like road cycling. It shares much with inline speed skating
Skateboarding, an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard