People have been ice skating for centuries. The first account of figure skating is in 1772. The first European championship was in 1891 and the International Skating Union was founded in 1892. Figure Skating was also first created by the Dutch in the 13 or 14 Century.
Ice skating is actually putting on skates and getting out on the ice. There are two kinds of skating. There is Figure Skating, which is the more graceful dancing kind, and Speed Skating, which is just racing on the rink.
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The most played sport is soccer. Also popular are tennis, cycling, and ice-skating.
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It is so popular in Dutch because it has been around there for so long. It also just took off as a popular sport, just the same as Canada and Hockey. Therefore there are more people skating, more competition... and therfore create better skaters that dominate the world cercuit.
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Yes, because bowling was their favorite sport; and ice skating and sledding where activities from their homeland, the Netherlands.
Ice skating, or if you do competitive skating it is called figure skating.
I would say its when people skate purely for the aesthetics of it all, skating so people see you skating instead of skating for the fun of it. Recently with the resurgence of skating a lot of people are skating just so they look cool and fit the trend.