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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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short track skate

Sports; Speed skating

A short track skate is much link a Clap Skate except on the short track skate the blade is fixed to the bottom of the boot and does not detach from the heel. The blades used in ...

skates

Sports; Speed skating

See Clap Skate and Short Track Skate.

snap

Sports; Speed skating

The ability of a skater to rapidly recover to take their next stride

sprint

Sports; Speed skating

When a skater needs to be going as fast as they can. This usually happens at the end of a race and is when the skater is using their maximum ability to get to the finish line ...

start judge

Sports; Speed skating

The Start Judge is the person who starts the race and will signal any restarts. The Start Judge has an assistant to help him do this and if there are any disagreements it is the ...

starting a race

Sports; Speed skating

To start a race the Start Judge will say, "Go to the Start" and the skaters will take their position at the pre-start line, the next command will be ready and the skaters will ...