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Ice skates, as well as snowshoes, cross-country skis and toboggans are available for rental.
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Barnev spins with his trays among the customers as if pirouetting on ice skates.
NEWYORKER: I Served the King of England
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These are snapshots captured as we go about our daily life working in North Korea: a man getting a haircut at a barber shop, traffic cops lacing up ice skates, a villager hauling a bundle of firewood on her back as she trudges through a snowy field.
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Around Thanksgiving he converts it to ice and skates through mid-March.
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When Brazil became independent from Portugal in 1822, British merchants, delighted to discover a big new market, flooded Brazil with manufactures, including, according to one possibly apocryphal story, ice-skates an early example of emerging-market fever.
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Thursday night's meeting at the "Rink", as it's known in Dundee, could decide whether the club falls through that ice, or skates its way to a bright new future.
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There's a website (hockeyfights.com) devoted entirely to the not-so-fine art of fighting on skates on ice, and there are chat rooms where the best fights are analyzed and picked apart.
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Speed skaters test human-performance limits--and smash records--with better training, better skates, faster ice.
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From 3:30 pm to 6 pm, the Prenestina Philharmonic orchestra will play some of the most famous pieces by Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Strauss and Gounod to accompany a variety of performances, including by world-champion ice skaters Alessandro Spigai and Anna Remondini (on roller-skates), stilt-walkers and traditional dancers.
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The two placed a pair of gloves down on center ice, and Mr. Martin executed tight, figure-eight turns while shifting weight between inside and outer skates.
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Her skates are chunks of steel as long as 13 feet (the crew changes skate length according to ice conditions), with an almost imperceptible curve along the bottom and a razor-sharp edge so that the skate bites hard into the ice.
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