Ice skating

Ice skating is a wintertime sport or recreational activity, or performed year round at indoor rinks. Figure skating is a competitive Olympic event, with notable athletes including Peggy Fleming and Rosalynn Sumners. 
Touring professional ice shows have existed since the late 1930s and in later decades relied heavily on licensed characters, as with the Disney on Ice events. Sesame Street licensed its characters to both Ice Follies and Holiday on Ice shows, portrayed as walk-around (or skate around) versions played by the shows' contracted skaters.
==Muppets ice skating==
Xmasanother81.jpg|Big Bird in Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.
Xmasanother.jpg|Cookie Monster, Count von Count, Bert, Ernie and Oscar the Grouch in Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.
IceFollies-Monsters.jpg|Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Grover, Bert, Betty Lou, Mr. Snuffleupagus, Count von Count, Ernie and Oscar the Grouch in Ice Follies sketches.
File:EOJC skating.jpg|Two critters in Waterville are seen skating on The River after the talent contest in Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas.
FR301-RumpleSkate.jpg|A few Fraggles (including Rumple) are seen skating around on the Fraggle Pond in "The Bells of Fraggle Rock."
MB photo Georgy Porgy-LS.jpg|Baby Gonzo, Skeeter and Piggy in the Georgie Porgie scene of "Muppet Babies' Classic Nursery Rhymes."
CratchitSkate.jpg|Bob Cratchit, Charles Dickens, Rizzo and the penguins at the penguins' annual Christmas skating party in The Muppet Christmas Carol.
Ewshoes-skater.jpg|Elmo in "Elmo's World: Shoes."
Celeb.RosalynnSumners.jpg|Gonzo in a Muppet Magazine photoshoot with Rosalynn Sumners.
Macy's windows 2002 h.jpg|Gonzo in a 2002 Macy's window display.
MopatopSkate.jpg|Mopatop, Puppyduck, penguin, Mother Mouse, Father Mouse, and Moosey Mouse in the episode "Cold Feet"
MurraySkating02.jpg|Murray Monster and Ovejita in Murray Has a Little Lamb "Ice Skating School" segment.
MMW extended cut 1.03.12 following Dominic 3.png|Walter in a deleted scene from Muppets Most Wanted.
Honorable mentions:
*Masterson Rat skates with pads of butter on a hot skillet during the "Rat Scat (Something's Cookin')" sequence in "The Muppets Take Manhattan."
*Practically everyone slips or slides on the icy patch in A Muppet Family Christmas.
*Uncle Traveling Matt visits a skating rink in the Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock episode "The Merggle Moon Migration."
*Big Bird tries to bring an oversized ice skate for Snuffy while packing for the gang's trip to Hawaii in Episode 1082.
*American figure skater Sarah Hughes showed Elmo her ice skates in a 2012 Internet video. 
==See also==
*Roller skates
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