Ice Skating

Ice skating or ice skating are popular with skating on the ice that people do with skating shoes. Sharp steel knife mounted on the bottom of the shoe. People can skate because of friction between the blade and the surface of ice skating and ice melt to warm up to create a slippery coating. Ice skating people do as recreation or winter sports. The word comes from the German skate Ancient, schake which means bone dry.

In countries with a very cold winter, the surface of lakes, ponds, canals, and rivers can sometimes freeze. Layer of ice that formed on the surface of the water is thick enough to wear skating. In the freezing winter in the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Russia, and Norway, people traveling from one place to another with skating. In countries with warmer climates, people skating on an ice skating rink (skating rink).
The ability of skating on ice is a fundamental skill for ice hockey, skating fast, beautiful skating, and ice dancing. They are all sports that competed in the Winter Olympics. 

The early history of ice skating was a reindeer bone or bone horses tied at the bottom of shoe leather is the first form of skating shoes. People using the skating shoes from the bone to hunt in Finland and Scandinavian fjord since 17 centuries ago. Hollowed leg bones of animals, and wearing shoes tied with leather belts. Around the 14th century, the Dutch began to wear skating shoes of wood with metal bottom of the shoe. A stick held by people as a tool while skating. Around the year 1500, the Dutch began installing a thin knife in the skating shoes, and sticks no longer needed.