page_title: Glossary of figure skating terms
section_title: L
hierarchical_section_title: Glossary of figure skating terms / L
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Полина Коробейникова (Россия) на чемпионате мира поф игурному катанию 2012
context_page_description: The following is a glossary of figure skating terms, sorted alphabetically.
context_section_description: LP
  An abbreviation for the long program.
  Ladies
  The official term for female competitors.
  Landing leg
  The leg on which a skater lands a jump. Opposite of free leg. For right-handed skaters, it is usually the right leg, and vice versa.
  Lasso lift
  A type of hand-to-hand pair lift.
  Layback spin
  A spin position in which the back is arched and head dropped back, the free leg bent behind, and the arms often stretched to the ceiling or arched overhead.
  Leg wrap
  An air position in jumps where the free leg is held at a right angle to the landing leg, crossing it above the knee, so that it appears to be "wrapped" around the other. Most skaters keep their legs more vertical and crossed at the ankles when they jump.
  Level (judging)
  The assigned difficulty of an element under the ISU Judging System. The highest difficulty level is Level 4.
  Level (skating)
  The division by competitive level of skill. International ISU competitions currently take place at the Novice, Junior, Senior, and Adult levels.
  Lift
  A pairs and ice dance element in which one skater lifts his or her partner while rotating. Pairs lifts, unlike dance, go over the head. Some dancers perform genderbending or "reverse" lifts, in which the woman lifts the man.
  Lip
  A portmanteau of "Lutz" and "flip", for an improperly executed flip jump, where the inside take-off edge is mistakenly changed to an outside edge, making it a Lutz jump.
  Lo
  The standard abbreviation for the loop jump.
  Lobe
  A semicircle created on the ice
  Long lift
  A group of dance lifts that may last up to ten seconds in competition on the senior level.
  Long program (LP)
  An unofficial, but widely used, name for the second and longer of the two programs performed by singles and pair skaters at a competition. The time limit is 4.5 minutes for men's singles and pairs and 4 minutes for ladies' singles at the senior (Olympic) level.
  Loop jump (Lo)
  An edge jump that takes off from the back outside edge.
  Lunge
  A skating move in which one leg is bent sharply at the knee and the other is extended backwards in a straight line with the boot or blade touching the ice.
  Lutz jump (Lz)
  A toepick-assisted jump with an entrance from a back outside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot.
  Lz
  The standard abbreviation for the Lutz jump.
caption: Layback spin with catchfoot
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