How to Use speed skating in a Sentence

speed skating

noun
  • Jordan Stolz aims for a third gold in speed skating.
    — Alex Connor, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Bonnie Blair has five gold medals from speed skating as well.
    — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The hockey may have been indoors, but the speed skating events were not.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2020
  • Plus, curling, freestyle skiing and speed skating all have medal events.
    — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 20 Feb. 2026
  • That moment was when she was first inspired to pursue speed skating.
    — Tim Genske, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • There are three core venues where events are held for speed skating, hockey and figure skating.
    — Alex Connor, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026
  • And there are plenty of places to practice speed skating, with 20 long track ice rinks.
    — Alana Abramson, Time, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Jordan Stolz is speed skating’s rising star.
    — Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Sharing the venue with short track speed skating doesn’t help, since speed skaters like the ice harder and colder.
    — Alice Park, Time, 17 Feb. 2026
  • There's speed skating, bobsled, even the ski jump, all of which are high speed and just one bad lean away from a dramatic crash.
    — Luke Darby, GQ, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Alvarez’s body of work—a combination of speed skating and baseball is just plain wild.
    — Sean Gregory / Tokyo, Time, 21 July 2021
  • But not all the videos showing up between clips of ice hockey and speed skating were pro-China.
    — Morgan Meaker, Wired, 11 Feb. 2022
  • This is the shortest event on the speed skating program, with athletes taking just 1-¼ laps around the track.
    — Sean Nevin, NBC news, 14 Feb. 2026
  • But Couric was at least right about the Netherlands’ dominance in speed skating.
    — Alana Abramson, Time, 14 Feb. 2018
  • In second place is Sweden, which has taken gold in men's moguls freestyle skiing and men's speed skating.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 6 Feb. 2022
  • The speed skaters are elite, and some of them will make the transition to speed skating on ice for the Winter Olympics.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 6 July 2022
  • On the surface, Olympic ski jumping looks every bit as easy to score as speed skating or cross-country skiing.
    — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Pence then watched speed skating with his wife before boarding Air Force Two to return home.
    — Author: Ashley Parker, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Krueger won the medal in the men's 1,000-meter short track speed skating competition.
    — Cheryl Wray, AL.com, 18 Feb. 2018
  • In Poland, ski jumping is probably one of the biggest sports, speed skating in the Netherlands.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2018
  • While on-ice cameras have long been part of speed skating and hockey, Cowan has helped create the niche for figure skating.
    — Colleen Barry, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Hockey and speed skating and figure skating all point to the reality of the pond—frozen over, sturdy enough to hold a human body.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The first medal events are Saturday in alpine skiing, speed skating, ski jumping and snowboarding.
    — Alex Connor, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Freestyle skiing, with 15, is the discipline with the most events, followed by speed skating with 14.
    — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • In Ohno’s own sport of short track speed skating, anything can go wrong in the jostling for position and the tiny margins of victory.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Of its 53 medals, 42 have come in short-track speedskating, nine in long-track speed skating and two in figure skating.
    — JerÉ Longman and Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2018
  • What to Consider These recreational skates aren’t the best fit for dancing, speed skating, or tricks.
    — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
  • It’s being said, over and over and over, that the United States has assembled one of its best-ever speed skating teams.
    — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Recent segments have covered bobsledding and speed skating.
    — Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The Netherlands is the most dominant nation in speed skating and Dutch skaters are celebrities in their home nation.
    — Sean Nevin, NBC news, 14 Feb. 2026

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