speed skating

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   competitive skating on speed skates (usually around an oval course)

   Broaderskating

Questions about speed skating

What does speed skating mean?

speed skating means "competitive skating on speed skates (usually around an oval course)".

Is speed skating a common word?

speed 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.