How about we go
skating on the lake?
我们去湖上滑冰怎么样？
Don't be a cheap skate.
不要做一个小气鬼。
I don't want to be
skating on thin ice.
我不想冒险。We like to go
skating.
我们喜欢去滑冰。
She doesn't like
skating.
她并不喜欢滑冰。
Can we go
skating at the weekend?
周末我们可以去滑冰么？
According to the nWayPlay online marketplace, a bidder on Friday paid $996 for a Short Track Speed Skating variant NFT.
据nWayPlay在线市场报道，周五，一名竞拍者以996美元的价格购买了一款短道速滑变体NFT。
Tim Hortons is skating into an already percolating coffee market in China.
On Dec 15, the Games' emblems were unveiled－and Chinese speed skating Olympic champion Zhang Hong, wearing Anta apparel emblazoned with the emblems, appeared on the dais during the launch ceremony.
Ding said Anta will provide affordable winter products by developing multiple categories, including skiiing and speed skating apparel and equipment.
When President Xi Jinping and Finnish President Sauli Niinisto met with athletes from the two nations at the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki in April, Xi brought a gift for Niinisto and his wife Jenni Haukio - a piece of sportswear bearing the Chinese athletes' autographs.
Consumption related to winter sports comes into spotlight this year, as sales of skiing and ice skating equipment, like suits, snow boots, gloves, caps and goggles, have witnessed robust growth triggered by the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, which opened on Friday and will close on Feb 20, JD said.
Construction workers are focusing on interior decorations and making ice at the National Speed Skating Oval, locally known as the "Ice Ribbon," which boasts the most extensive full ice design in Asia, with an ice surface area of 12,000 square meters.
Song Jiafeng, executive deputy general manager of the National Speed Skating Oval, has spent the past three National Day holidays staying on position.
Skating rinks and ski resorts in the city and its suburbs were favored by snow and ice sports enthusiasts, sparking some epic memories of the 2022 Winter Games.
"This winter, a number of world-level winter sports events will take place in Beijing, including the International Skating Union (ISU) Grand Prix of Figure Skating, the ISU World Cup Short Track Speed Skating series, and the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) Big Air competitions.
Between July 1 and Aug 13, sales of indoor skiing and ice skating admission tickets nationwide surged 187 percent over the previous month.
The skiing and ice skating trend has boosted sales of winter apparel and gear, up 150 percent in the first half.
For those who aren't keen on snow, skating is a suitable alternative.
Whether it is the Songhua River that runs through Harbin, or the frozen lakes in the parks, it can become a paradise for ice skating lovers.
On the frozen Daixiu Lake, there are also several skating coaches training their students, and some children are playing with traditional ice spinning tops.
Skiing and skating are popular among young travelers who constitute the main consumers of ice and snow trips.
Once a surfing fan, Ma got stuck in an inland city during a COVID-19 resurgence and began taking part in outdoor activities that don't require long-distance travel — like SUP and surf skating.
I can start skating at a random place and all I need is a board," she said.
The province has introduced incentives for setting up company headquarters and new projects in the ice and snow industries, as well as the transformation of spare real estate into indoor skating rinks, said Chen Zhe, head of the provincial culture and tourism department.
The construction of indoor ski and skating areas in southern China and ski resorts in Northeast and Northwest China presents opportunities for Austrian companies, Berger said.
Beijing 2022, festival boost sales of skating and skiing equipmentBoth skiers and the snow and ice sports industry in China are coasting on the interest generated by the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing, with sales of related products and services set to reach significant proportions this year.
For instance, sales of skiing and ice skating equipment on JD, an online marketplace, have grown during the Spring Festival holiday, which coincided with the Winter Olympics.
Compared with ski sports, ice skating products like figure skates, speed skate sharpeners and ice hockey sticks surged by 553 percent, 420 percent and 328 percent year-on-year, respectively.
Ever since Beijing won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games back in 2015, excitement toward snow and ice sports in China has grown exponentially, with skiing and ice skating venues popping up all over the country.
The Winter Games events that tend to draw the greatest public interest include short track speed skating, speed skating, freestyle skiing, snowboarding and curling, experts said.
Olympic speed skating venues once used refrigerants that damaged the Earth's ozone layer for making ice, according to Gui Lin, an official with the Planning and Construction Department of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
The new technology can help improve refrigeration efficiency by 20 percent and save electricity use by 2 million kWh a year for the National Speed Skating Oval, he said.
The upcoming Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games have fueled interest in winter sports, as evidenced by the large number of people browsing related products and queuing up to try the alpine skiing simulators and skate on the artificial ice rink at the fourth China International Import Expo in Shanghai.
The number of indoor ice skating rinks is also targeted at 650 in 2022, up from 188 in 2016.
It has also recruited foreigners as head coaches for a number of the country's winter sports, such as speed skating, curling and skiing in preparation for the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympics.
"When there is an ice skating gymnasium nearby, the complex can directly supply cold energy to the gym.
As of June 2019, there were 388 indoor skating venues in China.
Winter sports activities ground to a virtual halt with 774 ski resorts and 388 ice skating rinks facing mandatory shutdowns due to the COVID-19 epidemic effect.
But in recent years, with more ski resorts and skating rinks built in the province, winter visitor numbers have risen to compete with peak season figures.
Chinese Olympic skating champion Wu Dajing endorsed water brand Evergrande Spring and automobile brand Hongqi.
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics offers Anta a chance to provide sportswear products and equipments for 36 national teams, including those involved in speed skating.
Through years of innovation and research, Anta has assumed a leading position in the world in terms of speed skating equipment.
According to the ambitious plan released by the General Administration of Sport of China in 2016 to construct winter sports infrastructure and popularize winter sports, at least 650 skating rinks and 800 ski resorts are expected to be build nationwide by 2022.
BEIJING — Although winter vacation has come, 11-year-old Wang Aoyun still goes to school every day, for skating.
As school athletes, Wang and 20-plus teammates practice speed skating on a cornfield-turned ice rink at Taipingzhuang Central School in Beijing's Yanqing district.
Driven by the strong motivation of hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese government has issued different directives that target the involvement of 50 million people in winter sports pursuits and 300 million people participating in winter sports by 2025, as well as building 650 skating rinks and 800 ski resorts by 2022.
"We are seeing with personal mobility that some people like to skate; some people like to scoot, and some people like to ride," said Swagtron Chief Operating Officer Andrew Koven.
To keep up with Chinese people's increasing participation in winter sports and the rising demand for insurance products related to such hobbies and lifestyles, China's first internet insurance company ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance Co launched a special accident insurance product on Feb 5 targeting winter sports including alpine skiing, snowboarding and skating.
"I've seen children born in the warmer southern cities grow interested in winter sports and learn to enjoy skating after watching us compete at Beijing 2022," said Wu, who helped China win its first gold medal in 2,000-meter team relay in short-track speedskating on Feb 5 at Beijing 2022.