page_title: Tour skating
section_title: Dutch (toer)skating
hierarchical_section_title: Tour skating / Dutch (toer)skating
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Touren-Eisschnelllaufschlittschuhe der Firma Raps
context_page_description: Tour skating is recreational long distance ice skating on natural ice. It is particularly popular in the Netherlands, the Nordic countries, and Alaska. While Nordic skating usually involves tours over open ice on marshes, lakes, rivers, or sea, in the Netherlands skaters follow marked routes on frozen canals and connected lakes. Consequently, there are differences in equipment and skating styles between these two regions. Alaskans often include winter camping on longer journeys of a hundred miles or more.
  Nordic skating is a popular activity in Sweden but is also becoming more popular in Finland and Norway, where it is called långfärdsskridskoåkning, retkiluistelu and turskøyting. In Canada and the United States this style is often called Nordic skating. Other names used are trip skating and wild skating.
  Dutch skating is called toerschaatsen and is regarded by some as a sport in its own right.
context_section_description: In the Netherlands, the Dutch skating is called Toerschaatsen, where skaters follow marked routes on frozen canals and lakes, which are coordinated by the Royal Netherlands Skating Union.
  Despite its maritime climate in which real cold winters are rare, skating is traditionally the most popular winter pastime in the Netherlands even if many speed skating competitions have been moved indoors. Thousands of Dutch leap at the chance in cold winters to tie up their skates and glide across frozen lakes and canals, and sports stores all over the country sell out their skates.
caption: Modern Dutch tour skates
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