It could be a good time for an owl hike in Pelham Bay, the 115-year-old Christmas Bird Count and ice-skating rinks far from Midtown More...

The Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan broke his own points record for a men?s short program to take a commanding lead of the Grand Prix Final in Barcelona, Spain. More...

The events ? curling mixed doubles, mass start speed skating, an Alpine skiing event between nations and snowboard big air ? have female participation and youth appeal in mind. More...

From new rinks for skating and, yes, curling, and even ice biking, to ice festivals, the city is enjoying its cold weather. More...

A skating trail along a frozen river in the Canadian city is home to inventive installations called ?warming huts.? More...

Leaking valves that had threatened to shut down the skating rink for most of the winter have been repaired, the parks department said. More...

The parks department said it might soon start making ice again at Lasker Rink, while in the Bronx, a rink in Van Cortlandt Park may be doomed. More...

The skating rink at the north end of Central Park had announced it was closing for repairs just weeks into the season. More...

The new direction for the money-losing amusement park scraps a blueprint for a revenue-producing field house and focuses instead on upgrading its ice rink. More...

The ice dance gold medalists Meryl Davis and Charlie White will skip the 2014-15 season, they announced Friday. More...

The animated movie, a global hit, provides an opportunity for Disney to earn more profit from tie-ins. More...

Forget about the perennial question: Is figure skating an art or a sport? The main concern is the disintegration of performance quality. More...

Marina Zoueva groomed the gold and silver medalists in ice dancing into winners in Sochi. More...

In the short program, Davis and White moved a step closer ? a fox trot and quickstep closer, to be precise ? to becoming the first American Olympic champions in ice dance. More...

Dance and pairs teams using images taken year-round and off the ice to connect with their fans, and more important for them, with Olympic judges. More...

Ice dancing, a grueling sport, demands that the athletes exert great discipline over every aspect of their facial expressions. More...

Meryl Davis and Charlie White, who began skating together when she was 9 and he was 8, won the long program on Monday with a season best of 116.63 points and an overall score of 195.52. More...

The French sports newspaper L?Équipe claimed the United States and Russia were conspiring to fix the results in figure skating competitions. More...

Despite frigid temperatures in New York City of late, skaters had to go to rinks, because the once popular pastime of skating on lakes is prohibited. More...

Lincoln Center?s Dance on Camera festival revisits the choreographic glories of the old ice-skating extravaganzas. More...

Can?t make it to Sochi next month? You can create your own Olympic memories in and around this Adirondack village that hosted the 1980 Winter Games. More...

After winning the silver medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics with a flawed jumping technique, Mao Asada has restored herself among the gold medal favorites for the Sochi Games. More...

Brian Boitano said his decision to announce he was gay days after being named to a delegation that will represent the United States at the Winter Games in Russia was a spur-of-the-moment decision. More...

Olympic ice dancing is widely appealing to audiences, but it has been frequently mocked as a dubious competition. An existential question lurks: Is rumba really a sport? More...

With two weeks left in office, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg made his first stop in a five-borough tour of New York City. More...