runner

From Middle English rennere, rynner, urnare, equivalent to run + -er. Cognate with Old Norse rennari (“runner; messenger”). Displaced earlier Middle English runel (“runner”), from Old English rynel (“runner”; also “messenger, courier”).

махови́к

mechanical part intended to guide or aid something else to move

A leaping food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; the skipjack, shoemaker, or yellowtail.


lobe

From Middle French lobe in early 16th century, from New Latin lobus (“a lobe”), from Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós, “the lobe of the ear or of the liver, the pod of a leguminous plant”).

der

(figure skating) A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it. [from 20th c.]


lutz

From the surname of Austrian skater Alois Lutz, who invented the jump.

Meissner fell three times, on two triple lutzes and a triple flip, to drop from fourth, the worst performance by a defending champion in at least 50 years.

2008 January 27, Pat Borzi, “In a Youth Movement, Nagasu Wins the Title”, in New York Times:

(figure skating) A jump in which the skater takes off from the back outside edge of one skate, rotates counterclockwise and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.


mazurka

Via German Mazurka and Russian мазу́рка (mazúrka), from Polish mazurek (“dance of the Masurian”), the Masurians being the inhabitants of Mazowsze (compare Medieval Latin Mazovia), an ancient cultural region in east-central Poland.

(figure skating) A figure skating move that combines elements of the toe loop and bunny-hop.


axel

Named after Norwegian skater Axel Paulsen (1855–1938), who in 1882 became the first to perform the jump.

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Wylie, however, landed his Olympic axels beautifully and electrified the crowd as he capped a skating career that began at age three in Aspen, Colorado, when he followed two older sisters onto the ice.

1991, Harvard Magazine, volume 94, page 44:

Men had to do triple Axels or at least attempt them with tenacity.

1997, Beverley Smith, A Year in Figure Skating, page 115:

[…]King et al. (1994) and King (1997) compared single, double, and triple axels of junior and senior level skaters; Albert and Miller (1996) compared single and double axels of “good” figure skaters;[…].

2005, Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology, volume 30, page 746:

(figure skating) A jump that includes one (or more than one) complete turn and a half turn while in the air.


cantilever

First attested in the 1660s, probably from cant (“slope, edge, corner”) + lever, but the earliest form (c. 1610) was cantlapper. First element may also be Spanish can (“dog”), an architect's term for an end of timber jutting out of a wall, on which beams rested.

(figure skating) A technique, similar to the spread eagle, in which the skater travels along a deep edge with knees bent and bends their back backwards, parallel to the ice.


figure skating

From the origins of figure skating, where skaters once skated out patterns onto the ice surface, making a design on its surface. This then evolved into the compulsory figures component of figure skating, that was latterly dropped from competitive judging.

A sport where people perform spins, jumps and other moves on skates.


Choctaw turn

A turn in figure skating that involves both a change of foot and a change of edge and lobe.


spread eagle

(figure skating) A move in which a skater glides on both feet, the toes turned out to the sides, heels facing each other.


chack

en-verb

chack (third-person singular simple present chacks, present participle chacking, simple past and past participle chacked)

chacks (present singular third-person)
chacking (participle present)
chacked (participle past)
chacked (past)

From Michael Chack, an American figure skater whose bronze-medal-winning performance at the 1993 US National Championships was not broadcast on televsion because the producers did not think he would win a medal.

Michael Chack pulled WAY up in the standings in his long [skate event]...but was chacked while we saw five guys skate worse!!

1998, Louis Epstein, “US National Men's Final RESULTS”, in rec.sport.skating.ice.figure (Usenet):

I'm hoping ABC doesn't chack her performance...how could they??

2002, Jonas, International Skating Union Discussion Boards: Figure Skating: Yukari Nakano, the reigning world jr silver medalist, landed a triple axel:

Did they chack Kostner's skate because of the fluff piece on the Russian pairs or not? I kind of like her and wanted to see her.

2004, Rex, “The Rest of Skate Canada: Phaneuf Rocks! The First Time I saw the Two Canadian Pairs Skate!”, in rec.sport.skating.ice.figure (Usenet):

(ice-skating, transitive) To not broadcast a medal-winning or otherwise memorable or crucial figure skating performance. This only occurs in a live broadcast because the network has to decide which programs to show and which to cut in the interest of time. If a skater is low in the rankings and several big names are set to skate later, that performance may be cut.


Ina Bauer

Named for Ina Bauer, the German figure skater who invented the move.

(figure skating) A move where the skater skates with the blades parallel, toes pointing in opposite directions.


salchow

Named after the Swedish skater Ulrich Salchow.

Naomi Nari Nam and Themi Leftheris had a chance to grab a world team spot after Inoue and Baldwin stumbled, but Nam fell to a knee trying to land a throw triple salchow and also fell on the next throw, a triple loop.

2007 January 27, Lynn Zinser, “Sights Set on Title, Meissner Is All Smiles”, in New York Times:

A figure skating jump with a takeoff from a back inside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot after one or more rotations in the air.


layback

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From lay + back (presumably from confusion between lay and lie).

Mirai Nagasu, like Zhang a promising 14-year-old, showed equally astonishing flexibility on a layback spin Wednesday, leaning so far that the back of her head nearly touched her backside.

2008 January 24, Pat Borzi, “Figure Skating's Next Ones Are Closing in on Their Moment”, in New York Times:

(figure skating) A spin in which the head and shoulders are dropped backwards and the back arched downwards toward the ice; also called a layback spin.


figure skate

figure skate (third-person singular simple present figure skates, present participle figure skating, simple past and past participle figure skated)

figure skates (present singular third-person)
figure skating (participle present)
figure skated (participle past)
figure skated (past)


double jump

(figure skating) A jump that involves two or two-and-a-half rotations in the air.


death spiral

There are four types of death spirals, named for the edge on which the lady is skating—forward outside, forward inside, back outside, or back inside.

2002, Carole Shulman, The Complete Book of Figure Skating, →ISBN, page 194:

(pairs figure skating) A manoeuvre in which a male skater spins in place while holding one hand of his female skating partner as she circles around him with one skate on the ice and one leg extended outward parallel to the ice surface, all the while slowly lowering herself until her back almost touches the ice surface.


kiss and cry

Harding had seemed physically discomfited earlier as she awaited her marks in the kiss and cry corner.

1994 Feb. 24, Mike Rowbottom, "Winter Olympics / Ice Skating," The Independent (UK) (retrieved 201 Feb 2014)

The seating area where skaters wait for the judges' scores is called the "kiss and cry" for good reason.

2001 October 23, Mark Starr, “Starr Gazing: Kwan's Big Breakup”, in Newsweek, retrieved 2014-02-21:

With cameras in their faces, figure skaters awaiting their scores in the kiss-and-cry area offer a scene unlike any other.

2010 February 21, Juliet Macur, “After Skating, a Unique Olympic Event: Crying”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-02-21:

The deafening crowd . . . chanted and stomped their feet when Stolbova and Klimov came on the ice and Canada's pairs skaters were still sitting in the kiss and cry waiting for their scores.

2014 February 8, “Canadian pairs finish second in free skate, but Russia leads by 6 in team event”, in Winnipeg Free Press, Canada, retrieved 2014-02-21:

(idiomatic, figure skating, sometimes hyphenated (especially when used attributively)) The publicly viewable enclosure in which figure skaters sit immediately after a performance, while they await and receive the judging results.

figure skating; sometimes hyphenated (especially when used attributively); figure skating; sometimes hyphenated (especially when used attributively)


Biellmann

Named after Denise Biellmann, who popularized this maneuver, making it her signature move.

(figure skating) a spin on one skate while upright, with one leg in the air, and both hands gripping the figure skate above the figure skater's head


mop up the ice

mop up the ice (third-person singular simple present mops up the ice, present participle mopping up the ice, simple past and past participle mopped up the ice)

mops up the ice (present singular third-person)
mopping up the ice (participle present)
mopped up the ice (participle past)
mopped up the ice (past)

From the image of cleaning the ice with one's body.

On the other hand, you may see a skater hit all his triples in practice, then he mops up the ice during the competition.

1997, Brian Boitano, Suzanne Harper, Boitano's Edge: Inside The Real World Of Figure Skating, →ISBN, page 90:

At last year's Canadian championships, she KO'd her long-held Olympic dream when she mopped up the ice in her short program.

2007 January 19, Randy Starkman, “Hawker's a scrapper dressed up in sequins”, in Toronto Star:

There are LaBrecque and Bussey mopping up the ice in the usual pratfalls and assorted other spills.

2014 May 9, Lewis Funke, “25th Ice Capades: A Captivating Affair”, in The New York Times:

(figure skating) To fall many times during a performance.


loop jump

(figure skating) An edge jump taking off from a backward, outside edge, in which the skater rotates one to four times.