This file includes Sledding, Skating, Skiing and Snowboarding, and Hockey. Also see Weather and Winter.
Page Toppers
- Away I Go!
- Away We Go!
- Going Downhill Fast
- Sledding Buddies
- Slippin' and Slidin'
Quotes
- Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. (Jeff Valdez)
- I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't. (Stephen Chbosky)
- Luge strategy? Lie flat and try not to die. (Carmen Boyle, Olympic gold medalist)
- Stay home...Have fun. Build a snowman. Go sledding with the kids. (Mike Easley)
A Sledding Song
(Norman C. Schlichter)
Sing a song of winter,
Of frosty clouds in air!
Sing a song of snowflakes
Falling everywhere.
Sing a song of winter!
Sing a song of sleds!
Sing a song of tumbling
Over heels and heads.
Up and down a hillside
When the moon is bright,
Sledding is a tiptop
Wintertime delight.
January
January
Now is here--
A fine new start
For a whole new year.
The snow comes down
In the dark of night.
When we awake
The world is white.
In January
When there's snow,
We get our sleds
And away we go.
Here's a Hill
Here's a hill
All covered with snow.
We'll get ready.
Zoooom!
Down we go!
The Hard Part of Sledding
(Marsha Hayles)
The hard part of sledding
Is heading
Uphill
In a slow,
Mountaintop Climb.
The fun part of sledding's heading
Downhill
In a ZOOM
Of flashing
Fun time!
Let's Go Coasting
(Nona Keen Duffy)
Let us go coasting
On my brand-new sled.
It is new and shiny;
And is painted red!
It is big and roomy;
We can ride it double.
Two can get on it
Without any trouble.
You can help me pull it;
We can ride together.
Let us go coasting,
For it's splendid weather!
Get your coat and mittens;
All the world is white.
Let us go coasting
While the snow is just right!
Sledding
(Judy Mahar)
Sledding
and heading for spaces below,
Gliding
and sliding across the new snow,
Slicing,
an icing of white on the hill,
Leaning,
Careening, avoiding a spill.
Racing
to where the icy hill ends
A boy and his sled
become wintery friends.
My Toboggan and I Carve Winter
(Jane Wadley)
My toboggan and I carve winter.
We crunch over the powdery snow
the one by one glistening grains
they sigh and squeak
then RACE
faster and faster
whipping the wind apart
carving jet trails with swirling tails
circling the shadow of every tree
nearing full flight
til
WHOMP!
a lurking bump tumbles us
into the drifts of freezing snow.
We trudge slowly skyward for another run.
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Skiing and Snowboarding
Page Toppers
- Going Downhill Fast
- Ski Bum
- Ski Jump
- Skiers Go Downhill Fast
- Slippin' and Slidin'
- Smooth as Glass
Quotes
- All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.
- I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding. (Dave Barry)
- If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.
- One of the comforting things about racing is that the clock doesn't lie. You either rule or you suck--end of story. (Lisa Kosglow, pro snowboarder)
- Skier: One who pays an arm and a leg for the opportunity to break them.
- Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. (Dave Barry)
- Snow: a form of precipitation that usually occurs three weeks prior to and the morning of your departure from your ski vacation.
- Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough. (Dave Barry)
- There are 206 bones in the human body. No need for dismay, however; the three bones of the middle ear have never been broken while skiing.
- You're a real skier if your ski gear is worth more than your car.
Skiing
Skiing is like a dance with the mountain.
You move with ease from side to side,
suspended by a magical thread somewhere
between heaven and earth.
Skiing
(Marchette Chute)
I'm very good at skiing.
I have a kind of knack
For I can do it frontways
And also on my back.
And when I reach the bottom
I give a sudden flop
And dig myself in sideways,
And that's the way I stop.
Ski Lift
You ride up on the ski lift
To the mountain's snowy spire.
You sway high over chasms
On a sort of creaking wire.
You huddle on the narrow seat,
Secretly agreeing
That possibly the ski lift
Is scarier than skiing.
Songs about Skiing
- Ski City U.S.A. - The Buddies (1965)
- Ski Jump - The Buddies (1965)
- Ski Patrol - Bob Gibson (1959)
- Ski Patrol to the Rescue - The Backyardigans (2006)
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Page Toppers
- Go Figure!
- GR8 2 SK8
- Hitting the Ice
- Icing on the Season
- Free Style
- A Perfect Figure Eight
- Slippin' and Slidin'
- Smooth as Ice
- Smooth as Glass
- Spinning Like a Top
Quotes
- I didn't lose the gold, I won the silver. (Michelle Kwan about the '98 Olympics)
- Pain is short lived, but pride lasts a lifetime. (Elvis Stojko)
- The worst thing is to be paralyzed by fear. It's better to fall trying. Then you learn what to do so you don't fall again. (Brian Boitano)
Skating
(Herbert Asquith)
When I try to skate,
My feet are so wary
They grit and they grate;
And when I watch Mary
Easily gliding
Like an ice-fairy;
Skimming and curving,
Out and in
With a turn of her head,
And a lift of her chin,
And a gleam in her eye
And a twirl and a spin;
Sailing under
The breathless hush
Of the willows, and back
To the frozen rush;
Out to the island
And round the edge,
Skirting the rim
Of the crackling sedge,
Swerving close
To the poplar root,
And round the lake
On a single foot,
With a three, and an eight,
And a loop and a ring;
Where Mary glides,
The lake will sing!
Out in the mist
I hear her now
Under the frost
Of the willow bough
Easily sailing
Light and fleet
With the song of the lake
Beneath her feet.
A Skater's Valentine
(Arthur Guiterman)
What if the air has a nipping tooth!
Our hearts beat high with the blood of youth,
And a crystal sheet, unmarred, awaits
The silver ring of our flashing skates.
The peaks are white; the sky is blue;
All that the landscape lacks is YOU!
The ice is clear; the winds are still;
So if you'll come, as I pray you will,
The frosted pines of the mountainside
Shall watch us swing and dart and glide
Over the lake with the moon above,
Your small hand warm in my big brown glove!
Skating
Figure eights, spins and swirls,
Gliding fun for boys and girls.
There is nothing quite so nice
As starting out with blades on ice.
My Mother Took Me Skating
(Jack Prelutsky)
My mother took me skating
and we glided on the ice,
I wasn't very good at it
and stumbled more than twice.
My mother made a figure eight,
and since it seemed like fun,
I tried a little trick myself
and made a figure one.
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Page Toppers
- Chicks with Sticks!
- Face Off
- Give Blood...Play Hockey!
- Gliding Light
- Hat Trick
- Hit Someone, Anyone, Everyone!
- Hitting the Ice
- I Love Hockey
- Ice Wars
- Icing on the Season
- In the Crease
- Know Hockey, Know Life...
No Hockey, No Life...
- On One Blade
- Play for the Glory
- Power Play
- The Puck Drops Here
- The Puck Stops Here
- Score!
- Slapshot
- Slippin' and Slidin'
- Smooth as Ice
- Smooth as Glass
Quotes
- American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. (Gordie Howe)
- Four out of five dentists recommend playing hockey!
- Give Blood, Play Hockey!
- A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. (Wayne Gretzky)
- Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental. (Jim McKenny on Hockey)
- Here's a buck, maybe you can buy a goal!
- Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded--accordion-style--back to full stature, without any lasting side effect. (Steve Rushin)
- The hockey players biggest fan...the dentist!
- Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the bodies with dental records.
- How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? (Jacques Plante)
- I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. (Wayne Gretzky)
- Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. (Doug Larson)
- I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie. (Brett Hull)
- Passing the puck makes bad players good and good players great!
- A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another. (Jimmy Cannon)
- Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be. (Wayne Gretzky)
- Support your local hospital...play hockey!
- There is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for fun. (Roy MacGregor)
- We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital. (Brad Park)
- You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. (Wayne Gretzky)
Hockey
Slam the puck,
Chase it fast,
Make a goal--
What a blast!
Hockey
H onest
O bedient
C ourteous
K ind
E legant
Y eah Right!
Songs about Hockey
- Hat Trick - Dale Hawkins (1997)
- Hockey Here Tonight - Archie Campbell (1965)
- Hockey Mom - Tim Hus (2008)
- Hockey Night in Nashville - Local Anxiety (2007)
- Hockey Nut in Canada - Local Anxiety (2007)
- Hockey Skates - Kathleen Edwards (2003)
- I Like Hockey - Francoise Doherty (2010)
The problem with winter sports is that--follow me closely here--they generally take place in winter. (Dave Barry)
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