speed skating
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- noun
- /spiːd ˈskeɪtɪŋ/
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patinaje de velocidad
- In just three years, he's gone from inline skating champ to speed skating Olympic gold medalist.
- speed skating track
- short-track speed skating
- Olympic speed skating
Because speed skating is for however many years, but our relationship is gonna be decades and decades and decades.
- Because speed skating is for however many years, but our relationship is gonna be decades and decades and decades.
Examples
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Thom took up speed skating and, as a teenager, won five national age-group championships.
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So eventually we managed actually to do this, to measure the speed skating, and we did that with the following system.
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Because speed skating is for however many years, but our relationship is gonna be decades and decades and decades.
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So why does the temperature of Olympic ice need to be different for figure skating, speed skating, and hockey?
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And this happens in events, athletic events where you exercise really, really hard, you know, like sprints or speed skating or something like that.
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Ski take yesterday when Russian speed skating team beat the US in team pursuit and one of the Russians celebrated like this.
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Japanese skater Hiroyasu Shimizu won the gold in today's men's 500-meter speed skating, and it was Japan's very first medal.
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Morphology
The meaning 'a form of skating focused on speed/racing' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'speed' (how fast) with 'skating' (moving on skates). This N+N compound follows a common compositional pattern found across languages (e.g., patinaje de velocidad, patinage de vitesse), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Speed skating may come from people in the Netherlands racing across frozen canals on long skates in winter, a clear image of moving very fast on ice. The words speed and skating show the idea of 'skating fast', so today speed skating means 'a race on ice to get the fastest time'.