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A careful throw

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Imagine someone picking you up and throwing you into the air. Pretty scary, right?

Now imagine you are not on the ground, but on ice. You might be very scared of falling when you come down.

But this woman is smiling because she is an ice skater. She's not scared of falling, she's scared of losing.

These people are skating in an ice skating competition. They aren't competing against each other, they're competing together against other sets of partners. In ice skating, judges decide which team has the best moves, like spins, jumps and lifts, and then they give each team a score. Whoever gets the highest score wins.

Do you know? TOE PICK Ice skating is not the only sport you can play on ice. Some people play a game called hockey. But those people don't wear the same kind of skates. The ice skates these ice skaters are wearing have a toe pick in the front, which is a little section of pointy teeth that help the skaters do jumps.

The words of the day competition 競賽 (jing4 sai4) move 動作 (dong4 zuo4) My sister is a really good dancer. She has some great moves. 我姊真是個優秀的舞蹈家。她有些動作很棒。

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