Editing Ice skating (section)

==Communal activities on ice==
[[File:Ice skating on the Maumee River - DPLA - b8f4ed1d5efee68b00420d4e4b6a782f (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Ice skaters on the Maumee River in Toledo, Ohio, 1890s]]
A number of recreational and sporting activities take place on ice:

===Ice skating===

* [[Fen skating]] – a traditional form of ice skating in the [[The Fens|Fenland]] of England which involved skating races and matches held in towns and villages all over the Fens
* [[Tour skating]] – recreational and competitive long-distance skating outdoors on open areas of natural ice
* [[Speed skating]] – competitive form of ice skating in which contenders race over fixed distances, short track and long track versions
* [[Barrel jumping]] – a speed skating discipline in which skaters jump over a length of multiple barrels<ref>{{cite web |title=World Barrel Jumping Championships 1958 |url=https://www.britishpathe.com/video/world-barrel-jumping-championships |publisher=[[Pathé News|British Pathé]] |access-date=7 December 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202211/https://www.britishpathe.com/video/world-barrel-jumping-championships |archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>
* [[Figure skating]] – winter sport with multiple disciplines: men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, ice dance, and [[synchronized skating]]
* [[Bandy]] – non-contact team sport similar to ice hockey, but using a bandy ball and played on a large ice field
* [[Ice hockey]] – fast-paced contact team sport, using a vulcanized rubber puck, usually played on a special ice hockey rink
* [[Rink bandy]] – a form of bandy that can be played on a standard ice hockey rink
* [[Rinkball]] – non-contact team sport using a bandy ball with combined elements from bandy and ice hockey
* [[Ringette]] – non-contact team sport using a rubber pneumatic ring instead of a ball or puck
* [[Ice cross downhill]] – competitive extreme sport featuring downhill skating on a walled track

===No skating===
The following sports and games are also played on ice, but players are not required to wear ice skates.

* [[Ice cricket]] - a variant of the English game of cricket played in harsh wintry conditions
* [[Spongee]] – an outdoor team sport which is a non-contact variant of ice hockey played on outdoor ice hockey rinks
* [[Broomball]] – a team sport played on ice hockey rinks using sticks with paddles to propel a ball into the opposing team's net 
* [[Moscow broomball]] – an outdoor team game played using ice hockey equipment and a ball played at the Russian embassy on frozen outdoor courts flooded with water 
* [[Curling]] – a team sport using "rocks" and lanes and a target
* [[Ice stock sport|Ice stock]] – a team sport using lanes and a target
* [[Crokicurl]] – an outdoor team sport using "rocks" on an octagonal playing area with posts and a target