Phrase guide

figure skating

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

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Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

ice skating where the skates trace outlines of selected figures

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: ice skating

History

Etymology

From the origins of figure skating, where skaters once skated out patterns onto the ice surface, making a design on its surface. This then evolved into the compulsory figures component of figure skating, that was latterly dropped from competitive judging.

Across languages

Translations

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: تَزَلُّج فَنِّي عَلَى اَلْجَلِيد (tazalluj fannī ʕalā l-jalīd) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Armenian: գեղասահք (geġasahkʻ) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Azerbaijani: fiqurlu konkisürmə — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Bulgarian: фигурно пързаляне (figurno pǎrzaljane) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Chinese Mandarin: 花樣滑冰 /花样滑冰 (huāyàng huábīng) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Chinese Mandarin: 花式溜冰 (huāshì liūbīng) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Chinese Mandarin: 花樣溜冰 /花样溜冰 (huāyàng liūbīng) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Chinese Mandarin: 花滑 (huāhuá) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Czech: krasobruslení — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Dutch: kunstschaatsen — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Dutch: kunstrijden — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Esperanto: arta sketado — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Estonian: iluuisutamine — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Finnish: taitoluistelu — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Finnish: kaunoluistelu — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • French: patinage artistique — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • German: Eiskunstlauf — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Greek: καλλιτεχνικό πατινάζ (kallitechnikó patináz) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Greek: καλλιτεχνική παγοδρομία (kallitechnikí pagodromía) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Hungarian: műkorcsolyázás — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Hungarian: műkorcsolya — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Italian: pattinaggio di figura — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Japanese: フィギュアスケート (figyuasukēto) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Kazakh: мәнерлеп сырғанау (mänerlep syrğanau) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Korean: 피겨 스케이팅 (pigyeo seukeiting) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Latvian: daiļslidošana — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Macedonian: уметничко лизгање (umetničko lizganje) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Mongolian: уран гулгалт (uran gulgalt) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Norwegian: kunstløp — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Persian: پاتیناژ نمایشی (pâtinâž-e namâyeši) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Persian: اسکیت نمایشی (eskeyt-e namâyeši) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Polish: łyżwiarstwo figurowe — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Portuguese: patinação artística — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Russian: фигу́рное ката́ние (figúrnoje katánije) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Serbo-Croatian: umjetničko klizanje — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Serbo-Croatian: umetničko klizanje — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Slovak: krasokorčuľovanie — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Spanish: patinaje artístico — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Spanish: patinaje artístico sobre hielo — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Swedish: konståkning — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Thai: สเกตลีลา (sà-gét-lii-laa) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Udmurt: фигурной нискылан (figurnoj ńiskylan) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Ukrainian: фігу́рне ката́ння (fihúrne katánnja) — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates
  • Vietnamese: trượt băng nghệ thuật — sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates