figure skating

English

Etymology

From the origins of figure skating, where skaters once skated out patterns onto the ice surface, making a design on its surface. This then evolved into the compulsory figures component of figure skating, that was latterly dropped from competitive judging.

Noun

figure skating (uncountable)

1. A sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates.

Hyponyms

• figure ice skating, pair skating

Translations

sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates

• Arabic: تَزَلُّج فَنِّي عَلَى اَلْجَلِيد m (tazalluj fannī ʕalā l-jalīd)
• Armenian: գեղասահք (hy) (geġasahkʻ)
• Bulgarian: фигурно пързаляне n (figurno pǎrzaljane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花樣滑冰 / 花样滑冰 (zh) (huāyàng huábīng), 花式溜冰 (huāshì liūbīng), 花樣溜冰 / 花样溜冰 (huāyàng liūbīng)

• Czech: krasobruslení (cs) n
• Dutch: kunstschaatsen (nl) n, kunstrijden (nl) n
• Esperanto: arta sketado
• Estonian: iluuisutamine
• Finnish: taitoluistelu (fi), kaunoluistelu
• French: patinage artistique (fr) m
• German: Eiskunstlauf (de) m
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: műkorcsolyázás (hu), műkorcsolya (hu)
• Italian: pattinaggio di figura m
• Japanese: フィギュアスケート (ja) (figyuasukēto)
• Kazakh: мәнерлеп сырғанау (mänerlep syrğanau)
• Korean: 피겨 스케이팅 (pigyeo seukeiting)
• Latvian: daiļslidošana f
• Macedonian: уметничко лизгање n (umetničko lizganje)
• Mongolian: уран гулгалт (uran gulgalt)
• Norwegian: kunstløp
• Persian: پاتیناژ نمایشی (pâtinâž-e namâyeši), اسکیت نمایشی (eskeyt-e namâyeši)
• Polish: łyżwiarstwo figurowe (pl) n
• Portuguese: patinação artística f
• Russian: фигу́рное ката́ние (ru) n (figúrnoje katánije)
• Serbo-Croatian: umjetničko klizanje n (Croatia), umetničko klizanje (Serbia)
• Slovak: krasokorčuľovanie n
• Spanish: patinaje artístico m, patinaje artístico sobre hielo m
• Swedish: konståkning (sv) c
• Thai: สเกตลีลา (sà-gét-lii-laa)
• Ukrainian: фігу́рне ката́ння n (fihúrne katánnja)
• Vietnamese: trượt băng nghệ thuật (vi)