How to Use figure skating in a Sentence

figure skating

noun

• Weir is a two-time Olympian in figure skating, which means no skating double was required for his role.
  — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 1 Jan. 2020
• Gailhaguet has had a long tenure in French figure skating.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
• The scandal was one of the causes for the revamp of scoring in figure skating to a new judging system.
  — Tanya Edwards, refinery29.com, 1 Jan. 2020
• An ice princess sport, figure skating has always been partial to mainstream ideologies.
  — Teen Vogue, 28 Oct. 2019
• In two places, the roughly four-foot-wide paths led to adjacent rinks, one set up with boards and nets for hockey, the other for figure skating.
  — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
• The park is the only public skating rink in Cleveland and offers low-cost figure skating and hockey programs to youth.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 28 Jan. 2020
• This was about nine years ago and Lysacek had just won the Olympic gold medal in men’s figure skating, making him one of the most famous athletes in the world.
  — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 18 Dec. 2019
• Allegations arose that the pairs’ figure skating competition had been fixed, leading to two pairs teams receiving gold medals.
  — Tanya Edwards, refinery29.com, 1 Jan. 2020
• Netflix's gritty figure skating drama stars Kaya Scodelario as a plagued athlete fighting for her last chance at victory.
  — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Dec. 2019
• Competitive figure skating is no joke, and these characters take it as seriously as any real life professional would.
  — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 2 Jan. 2020
• Originally, it was ranked sixth, behind Alpine skiing, figure skating, freestyle skiing, short-track speedskating, and hockey.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• While the team event is in the books, there’s still a whole lot of figure skating left at the 2022 Olympics.
  — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 7 Feb. 2022
• The move has been described as one of the hardest jumps in all of figure skating.
  — Janine Henni, PEOPLE.com, 14 Feb. 2022
• Here are just a few of the songs that have served as the soundtrack of Olympic figure skating so far, and why skaters picked them.
  — Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2022
• And in Olympic figure skating, safety and trust have been breached.
  — Kaitlyn Weaver, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
• The figure skating team event continues with the men and women's free skate and the free dance.
  — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2022
• There are highs and lows to every figure skating program at the Olympics.
  — Dave Skretta, ajc, 20 Feb. 2022
• Who was the last woman to win back-to-back gold medals in women’s figure skating?
  — Noah Trister, ajc, 31 Jan. 2022
• The prize: Silver, figure skating team event; bronze, ice dance.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2022
• Their bronze also means the United States has medaled in each of the first three figure skating events at the Beijing Olympics.
  — Sally Ho, courant.com, 14 Feb. 2022
• Depending on the outcome, the results of the team figure skating event could change.
  — Emma Barnett, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2023
• The big figure skating powers decided that the stakes were too high not to go.
  — Louise Radnofsky, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021
• She was cleared to skate only a day before the start of the women’s figure skating short program.
  — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
• The verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport means the Russians are set to be stripped of the gold medal in figure skating’s team event.
  — Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• Here’s how to watch all your favorite figure skating events at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
  — Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 5 Feb. 2022
• Team USA finished second in the figure skating team event on Feb. 7.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
• Nathan Chen went head-to-head against figure skating legend Yuzuru Hanyu and came away with a gold medal.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• Olympic figure skating starts on February 4 with the team event: rhythm dance and men’s and pairs’ short programs.
  — Joyce Rubin, Vogue, 31 Jan. 2022
• Her scores were eliminated from the women’s figure skating event as well as the team event, where her removal pushed Team USA to gold.
  — Alice Park / Paris, TIME, 31 July 2024
• The 2026 events include skiing, snowboarding and — a fan favorite — figure skating.
  — NBC News, 12 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024