Illustration: Old Tin Toy] New England boys in those early days went skating on thin ice and broke through and were drowned, just as New England boys and girls are to-day, alas!
In Massachusetts and Connecticut, skating was among the many Dutch ways and doings practised by English folk in the new world.
At the end of 1875 Punch notes a report that the Albert Hall was to be converted into a Grand Skating Rink.
Of these roller-skating has temporarily disappeared.
Women had competed in croquet, roller-skating and lawn tennis, and man had successively yielded these various fields of pastime, hoping to retain the mastery of the cricket field, now threatened.
As I was saying, skatingsoon comes back to--thought I was gone that time!
In the winter, skating carnivals are held and two score artificial skating ponds are maintained.
In the afternoon, he went skating on the Duck Pond.
I shall go sliding and skating every day all Winter.
And so soon as the first dust storm spoils the river ice, they enclose this pond we are passing, and make a covered skating rink.
When accompanying him on his professional visits, or skating on the little Lake of Hanover, or conversing with him in his Diogenes tub, hope came back to him; but when his friend left, hope forsook him.
Skating has been, within the last few years, a very progressive art.
Something may now be learned of figure-skating on dry land, and the adventure may be renewed of the mythical children who went sliding all on a summer day.
In this respect, skatinghas a great advantage over its rival, the "roaring game" of curling.
Our skating stands to the Canadian fashion somewhat as French does to English etching.
In Canada, where frost is a certainty, and where the covered "rinks" makeskating an indoor sport, it is not odd that great perfection should be attained.
There is hardly a greater difference between these old bone skates and the "acmes" and club skates of to-day, than there is between the skating of the Middle Ages and the artistic and graceful movements of good performers of to-day.
Indeed, skating as a fine art is entirely a thing of modern growth.
Frequent allusions occur in the old Northern poetry, which prove that proficiency in skating was one of the most highly esteemed accomplishments of the Northern heroes.
I'm getting up a crowd to go skating to-night, and have a rarebit afterward.
Willard, mopping his brow, slipping on a patch of wax, and saving himself with a skating motion, brought up triumphantly beside her, waving two dance orders.
We had fine skating till the snow came, and ever since, it's been bang-up sleighing.
In the distance Dave Darrin could be seen skating back.
We're going to wash his face," insisted Ben Alvord, skatingup and looking belligerent.
Well, it uster be bigger an' deeper than it is now, and in the winter it was the skating place for all the lads in the neighbourhood.
They yelled as best they could, and some boys who were near them hollered, and the boys who were skatingheard them and came tearing along to see what was the matter.
State visits, dinners, the theatre, skating and a private visit to the King and Queen of Hanover in their retirement at Hietsing, constituted the programme of the next few days.
What bewildered her still more, was to see that they were all skating about on the thinnest possible ice.
At first she was afraid even to set her foot upon it, but soon found herself skating merrily about, enjoying it as much as any of them.
Now, the grandest skater of all was a griffin, who led all the others, skating more skilfully than any of them, and flitting like mad across the very thinnest places.
One day, skating off into a corner, she found the griffin sitting apart, behind a great block of ice with his claws crossed, and looking very cold and dreary, like a snow image.
It fell upon the ermine muff of a furbelowed old dowager, who was skating bravely about, notwithstanding her seventy years.
We youngsters used to do that to get a drink when we were skating on a little prairie pond, a long way from nowhere.
But there's the lagoon in winter, with good skating a mile and a half of the way.
It was a glorious night; the skating was wonderful.
Skating rapidly to the end of the lagoon nearest the dry dock she circulated about until she discovered the spot at which the sled had left the ice.
You must drink the good soup," said Barker, "for when the lake freezes up you and Bill must go skating and you must be big and strong when we get home to Vicksburg.
When the weather was fine they went on skating trips up and down the glassy ice of the sloughs, which reflected like a mirror the boys at play and the trees on shore.
The only real people among the crowd of dancing skating shadows were herself and John, with whom all that first day she had hardly exchanged a word--to her relief, was it, or her disappointment?
Every one was skating hand in hand, but surely no two hands trembled one in the other as theirs did.
Mothers drove over with their daughters; for skating is a healthy pursuit, and those that can't skate can learn.
Hand-in-hand skating is another most delightful branch of the art, and has been very strikingly developed in the last few years in England.
I mentioned above, that skating in England is in a transition stage, and by this I mean that the last few years have witnessed the introduction of what is called the foreign style of skating in England.
I propose in this article simply to give my own personal views on the subject of skating in general, and to say what I consider to be the best method of attaining proficiency in the art.
The skaters take up their positions facing one another at four points of the inner circle, skating off on a curve of outside edge with the right foot and going round the inner circle.
When these have been acquired the full delight of the health-giving exercise of skating will be open to you.
It is natural that the art of skating should come to us from the North, for it is in the land of ice and snow that the problem of traversing the frozen surface of the snow-covered ground and the ice-bound water would have to be solved.
She rides on horseback daily in summer, and in winter spends a considerable amount of time skating on the ice.
On the use of skates we shall have little to say, as the art of plain, straightforward skating is too general to need more than a passing remark.
In winter there was ice skating with blades and sliding.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: checkers; chess; flow; game; glide; sailing; slide; sliding; slither; slithering; sport; sweep; sweeping
