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(Encyclopedia) iceboating, sport of sailing a specially prepared boat equipped with runners over ice. The first iceboats were probably sailed by the Dutch during the 18th cent., although the Finns and Sami (Lapps) m...

(Encyclopedia) dry ice: see carbon dioxide.

(Encyclopedia) Ice Age: see Pleistocene epoch.

(Encyclopedia)  Ice Cube : see Rap music.

(Encyclopedia) Ice Fjord, Spitsbergen: see Isfjorden. ...

(Encyclopedia) roller skating, gliding on a hard, smooth, durable surface on skates with rollers or wheels, in recent years has become a popular adult sport. Skates mounted on wooden rollers date from the 1860s, and...

(Encyclopedia) Jágr, Jaromír, 1972–, Czech ice hockey player, b. Kladno. Jágr played professional hockey in Czechoslovakia as a teenager, and joined the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League in 1990...

(Encyclopedia) bowls, ancient sport (the bocce of Caesar's Rome is still played by Italians), especially popular in Great Britain and Australia, known as lawn bowls or bowling on the green in the United States. It w...

(Encyclopedia) Ice Age National Scenic Trail: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) As, symbol for the element arsenic. ...