Tour skating is a sport and recreational form of long distance ice skating on natural ice.
The Nordic style of tour skating is popular in the Nordic countries, especially Sweden, but increasingly in Finland and Norway, where it is respectively called långfärdsskridsko (Swedish), retkiluistelu (Finnish) and turskøyting (Norwegian). In Canada and the USA this style is often called Nordic skating. Other names used are trip skating and wild skating.
Another sport of skating, which is popular in the Netherlands, is called toerschaatsen (Dutch).
While the Nordic skating usually involves choosing your own tours over the ice on lakes and the seas, in the Netherlands skaters follow marked routes on frozen canals and lakes. Consequently the equipment used and safety requirements differ very much between these two skating sports.
Read more about Tour Skating: Nordic Skating, Dutch (toer)skating, Outdoor Skating in Canada
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