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toe pick

American  

noun

  1. one of the sharp teeth in the front part of a figure-skating blade.


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“I hit my toe pick after I threw her,” Michael Marinaro of Canada said after precisely that happened during their calamitous short program at the Olympics on Friday night, “and I fell on my face.”

From Seattle Times Feb. 18, 2022

Depending on whether it’s a toe pick jump or an edge jump, the movement patterns they do to get that vertical velocity will differ.

From Scientific American Feb. 14, 2022

Particularly for the toe pick jumps, the horizontal velocity you have can be used to do more like a pole-vaulting-type motion.

From Scientific American Feb. 14, 2022

Who knows what might have happened if not for a stray blade or a toe pick?

From Washington Post Feb. 7, 2022

Instead of a toe pick — the jagged tip of a blade necessary for jumps — there is a rubber ball.

From New York Times Sep. 10, 2020

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