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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

For toe pick jumps, you’re sort of vaulting off the toe pick to pop up.

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

Upon finishing, he grabbed a bucket of ice shavings and repaired the divots in the ice that he had created with his toe pick when he pushed off for his jumps.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2019

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