Winter sport

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.bigmtn.com
Employees: 200

Winter Sports wants you to tread some slippery slopes. The company operates the Whitefish Mountain Resort (formerly Big Mountain) near Glacier National Park in Montana, offering outdoor enthusiasts miles of ski slopes and trails. It includes about a dozen ski lifts serving more than 3,000 acres of land, more than 2,500 acres of which are leased from the U.S. Forest Service under a special permit. Whitefish Mountain also features ski rental and retail shops, lodging, and a skiing school. The ski area, open from November to April, offers visitors shopping, snowmobile riding, sleigh rides, and other activities. Summer guests can hike, sightsee, mountain bike, and go horseback riding.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending May, 2008:
Sales: $13.4M

Officers:
President and CEO: Daniel Graves
Director Marketing: Sports & Recreation

Competitors:
Boyne USA
Intrawest
Vail Resorts

A winter sport is a sport commonly played during winter. As a formal term, it refers to a sport played on snow or ice; informally, it can refer to sports played in winter that are also played year-round, such as basketball. The main winter sports are ice hockey and figure skating, sledding events, such as luge, skeleton, and bobsleigh, skiing (Alpine and Nordic) and snowboarding. Other common winter sports include snow-blading, monoskiing, skwal, tobogganing, and snowmobiling.

Contents 1 List of winter sports 1.1 Ice skating 1.2 Skiing 1.3 Sledding 1.4 Snowboarding 1.5 Snowmobiling 1.6 Recreational sports 1.7 Team sports 2 Notable Winter sport resort regions 3 Notable Winter sporting events 4 See also 5 External links

List of winter sports

Note: an asterisk indicates that a particular sport is included in the Winter Olympic Games, as of the 2006 Turin Olympics.

Ice skating

• Figure skating *
• Short-track speed skating *
• Speed skating *
• Synchronized skating

Skiing

• Alpine skiing *
• Biathlon *
• Cross country skiing *
• Freestyle skiing *
• Newschool skiing
• Nordic combined *
• Ski archery
• Skiboarding
• Skibob
• Skijoring
• Ski jumping *
• Snowshoe
• Speed skiing
• Telemark skiing

Sledding

Sports that use sleds going down ice tracks or pulled by something:

• Airboard
• Bobsled *
• Dogsled racing
• Ice Blocking
• Luge *
• Skeleton *
• Wok racing

Snowboarding

• Alpine snowboarding *
• Boardercross *
• Freestyle snowboarding *
• Slalom *

Snowmobiling

• free style
• snow-cross
• recreation
• cross country
• hill climbing

Recreational sports

Some 'sports' are competed (or simply enjoyed) on a more casual basis, often by children:

• Building snowmen
• Ice boating or sailing
• Ice fishing
• Ice swimming
• Shinny
• Snowball fight
• Tobogganing

Team sports

• Bandy
• Broomball
• Curling *
• Ice hockey *
• Ice stock sport
• Ringette
• Sledge hockey - (Winter Paralympic Sport)
• Snowball fight - (Last one standing)

Notable Winter sport resort regions

• Alps
• Andes
• Appalachian Mountains
• Balkan Mountains
• Carpathian Mountains
• Karkonosze Mountains/Sudeten mountains
• Lapland
• Rocky Mountains
• Snowy Mountains
• Swiss Alps
• Whistler

Notable Winter sporting events

• Winter Olympic Games
• Asian Winter Games
• Winter Paralympic Games
• Winter Universiade
• Winter Dew Tour

See also

• Outline of sports

External links

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