school figure

noun

: one of a progressive series of fundamental figure skating movements that are executed in a prescribed pattern in the form of a 2-lobed or 3-lobed figure eight and constitute a part of championship competition

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(in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.

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school figure,

one of a required set of figures or movements in a skating competition: »

School figures…include turns like threes, double threes, brackets, and loops, and combinations thereof (New Yorker).