free skate

American  

noun

Figure Skating.

1. a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice.

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Example Sentences

Despite a mistake on his quadruple toe loop-double toeloop combination, the 24-year-old leads heading into Saturday's free skate final, ahead of Canadian Stephen Gogolev, who unexpectedly placed second with 89.35 points.

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Their fourth-place free skate score of 116.90 was still enough to give them silver with 195.73 points and with their Cup of China crown they, too, are qualified for the Grand Prix Final.

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Later Saturday, Kazuki Tomono will try to give Japan another gold when he takes the lead into the men's free skate.

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But their sophisticated components and composure were enough to earn the top free skate score of 141.57 for a total of 215.99 points.

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That was plenty as the Georgian duo of Metelkina and Berulava, who had surprised the Japanese with a rousing short program, delivered a mistake-strewn free skate featurin a fall by her, a botched jump landing by him and the complete failure of one planned lift.

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