Figure skating is a part of the Winter Universiade. It was first held as part of the Universiade in 1960.
Famous quotes containing the words figure, skating and/or winter:
“I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
firetruck”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Whenas the Chill Sirocco blowes,
And Winter tells a heavy tale;
When Pyes and Dawes and Rookes and Crows,
Sit cursing of the frosts and snowes;
Then give me Ale.”
—Thomas Bonham (d. 1629?)