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Sports

Of or pertaining to any organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity or game requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means within a specified set of rules.

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boots

Sports; Speed skating

Boots in speed skating are usually made of leather they do not have high tops, but give freedom of movement to a skater's ankle. They, of course, have skating blades attached to ...

breakaway

Sports; Speed skating

This is a sprint used by a skater to breakaway from the rest of the skaters and is usually done in the final moments of a race in a sprint to the finish line.

burn out

Sports; Speed skating

This is a fast pace set by one skater in an attempt to exhaust the other skaters.

cadence

Sports; Speed skating

See stride rate.

change in track

Sports; Speed skating

In Olympic skating, skaters must change the lanes of the track that they started in. The skater who begins the race in the inside lane of the track moves to the outside lane when ...