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I think it was truly like the 10,000 hours that helped me to be a great skater, but I think, right off the bat, I loved it immediately.
How Beyoncé Helped Figure Skater Adam Rippon Make the Olympics|Nick Fouriezos|January 26, 2021|Ozy
He also talks about which teams got better or worse over the offseason, including how the defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning are dealing with the loss of their best skater.
College Football’s Flawed Season Gave Us A Flawless Champion|Sarah Shachat|January 12, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
A handful of events were canceled, but the early days of the pandemic largely felt like a bullet dodged for the skiers, skaters and snowboarders training for the 2022 Olympics in Beijing.
A year from Beijing Olympics, coronavirus wreaks havoc with winter sports schedules|Rick Maese|January 12, 2021|Washington Post
Daniel Sprong is making his caseSprong, 23, joined the Capitals’ main group of skaters Saturday for the first time — pushing offseason acquisition Conor Sheary to the second group — and skated on the third line with Lars Eller and Richard Panik.
Five takeaways from the Capitals’ final scrimmage of training camp|Samantha Pell|January 11, 2021|Washington Post

Until that point, the 17-year-old professional speed skater had been training non-stop.
What happens when one billion people can’t play sports?|Ananya Bhattacharya|December 6, 2020|Quartz
Maybe the judges scored the Russian skater generously because they just wanted to be done with it all and get out of Sochi alive.
Sotnikova Beat Kim Yu-Na? Figure Skating Is Probably Corrupt (But We Knew That)|Kevin Fallon|February 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Nineteen-year-old figure skater Jason Brown has been rocking a signature hairstyle that even has its own Twitter account.
U.S. Olympian Jason Brown Is Stealing the Show with His Ponytail Power|Justin Jones|February 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But I could not bear the thought of skater Takahashi being seen by the world as a co-conspirator in our crime.
Japan’s Beloved Deaf Composer is Neither Deaf Nor a Composer|Jimmy So|February 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Raised from nothing, Harding aspired to greatness: she wanted to be the best female figure skater in the world.
ESPN’s ‘The Price of Gold’ Revisits the Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan Scandal|Amy Zimmerman|January 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hipster skater style from Zoe Jordan to kick off day two of LFW.
Zoe Jordan's Skater Style|Tom Sykes|September 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Eve looked very pretty in her skating rig, and she was a splendid skater, too.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage|Gertrude W. Morrison
The swallow is a happy bird and skims and dances in the air like a fancy skater on the ice.
Seven O'Clock Stories|Robert Gordon Anderson
And when the skater visits the ice again, back he will come and resume the wheeling at intervals.
The Hills and the Vale|Richard Jefferies
A beginner learning to skate, for example, exerts himself fully as much as the accomplished skater.
The Psychology of Singing|David C. Taylor
One of the gentlemen of the village offered a "badge of honor" to the swiftest skater on the pond—the one who could win the race.
Frank Merriwell's Chums|Burt L. Standish

British Dictionary definitions for skater

skater

/ (ˈskeɪtə) /

noun

a person who skates

same as skateboarderSee skateboarder

British informal a young person who typically wears baggy clothes and spends a lot of time skateboarding

See pond-skater

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