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1. A winter sport is a sport which is played on snow or ice. Traditionally such sports were only played in cold areas during winter, but artificial snow and ice allow more flexibility.

} Most such sports are variations of skiing, ice skating and sledding.

} Common individual sports include cross-country skiing, Alpine skiing, snowboarding, ski jumping, speed skating, figure skating, luge, skeleton, bobsleigh and snowmobiling.

} Common team sports include ice hockey, curling and bandy.

} Winter sports often have their own multi-sport tournaments, such as the Winter Olympic Games.

3. The term ' Winter sports' refers to sport that take place on snow and ice. Keen competition has grown up around them, and the Winter Olympics are held every four years.

} There are two main types of skiing:

} Alpine Skiing, which features downhill and slalom racing.

} Nordic Skiing, which is a cross-country sport that also includes ski jumping.

} A new type of skiing, freestyle, is about performance rather than speed. In sled racing, riders hurtle down a special runs.

} Skating includes figure, ice hockey, and racing.

1. List of winter sports

Ice skating

• Figure skating *
• Short-track speed skating *
• Speed skating *
• Synchronized skating

Skiing

• Alpine skiing *
• Biathlon *
• Cross-country skiing *
• Freestyle skiing *
• Kite skiing
• Mogul skiing*
• Monoskiing
• Newschool skiing
• Nordic combined *
• Ski archery
• Skiboarding
• Skibob
• Skijoring
• Ski jumping *
• Snowkiting
• Snowshoe
• Speed skiing
• Speed riding
• Telemark skiing

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