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A unit of music which is defined by the periodic recurrence of the accent. Such units are of equal number of beats.

In synchronized skating, a mirror image pattern is shown when one half of the team simultaneously uses a combination of both clockwise and counter-clockwise directions.

A turn from one foot to the other in which the entry and exit curves are continuous and of equal depth. The change of foot is from an outside edge to an outside edge or from and inside edge to an inside edge.

Section-hosted events identified by Skate Canada.  

In the air, the body rotates in the same direction as it does on the take-off edge.

Any spin position which is not one of the three defined basic spin positions (camel, sit , upright).

A jump that is not listed in the Scale of Values; does not count as a jump element.

A one-foot movement in which a skater travels along the ice with one leg in a strongly bent position and the other leg directed forward parallel to the ice.

A rotational movement on one foot in which the skater moves from forward to backward or backward to forward.

A choctaw in which the free foot is placed on the ice at the inner side of the skating foot. Following the weight transfer the immediate position of the new free foot is behind the heel of the new skating foot.