At an international or major national skating competitions, skaters in the same event are divided into groups for practice sessions before the competition.

Every year, it is the venue of a very prestigious synchronized skating competition.

In 1994, she began participating in Japanese national skating competitions.

All of a sudden, fourth place in a preliminary skating competition, even at the worlds, didn't seem so crushing.

In fact, this was one of those rare skating competitions in which everyone sounded satisfied with the final order.

They also competed at various other international as well as national synchronized skating competitions.

Nathan Chen started figure skating at age three and entered his first skating competition in 2003.

It was the 37th edition of that competition, which is one of the oldest extant skating competitions.

Originally a term for the part of the skating competition that was not compulsory figures.

The American showed excellent technique in the skating competition, but his performance wasn't very artistic.