Gretzky learned his skills from his father on a backyard rink at his home.

Sunohara's late father built a backyard rink in the winters and introduced his daughter to skating at the age of two and a half.

At age four, he began playing hockey on a backyard rink, built by his father.

Perhaps it was the backyard ice-skating rink that turns into a basketball court in spring.

He began skating when he was four on his family's backyard rink.

Each Autumn, his father constructed a wooden frame in preparation for packing and flooding their large backyard rink.

Town officials prefer backyard rinks to ponds, especially since increasingly mild winters have made pond ice more dangerous.

Aficionados say backyard rinks encourage a sense of community in an age of anomie.

Gretzky: from the backyard rink to the Stanley Cup.

His homemade backyard rink (building instructions included in the book) has been the neighborhood melting pot.