figure skating

1. 1.

   ice skating where the skates trace outlines of selected figures

   Broaderice skating

Questions about figure skating

What does figure skating mean?

figure skating means "ice skating where the skates trace outlines of selected figures".

Is figure skating a common word?

figure skating is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.