Sports · Unit 13

Winter Sports

Snow and ice: skiing, skating and hockey

Winter sports are built on a physical peculiarity: ice and snow have very low friction, so the challenge becomes control rather than propulsion.

The unit covers skiing, snowboarding, figure and speed skating, ice hockey, and bobsled, luge and curling.

This unit breaks down into 21 short steps and 120 questions, starting at difficulty 2 and building to 3. Below you can see exactly what it covers, how the path is structured, and worked examples with explanations.

Steps: 21
Questions: 120
Difficulty: 2-3

What this unit covers

Skiing
Snowboarding
Figure and Speed Skating
Ice Hockey
Bobsled, Luge and Curling

Where this fits

Follows The Olympics.

Where people slip

The Winter Olympics were separated from the Summer Games and are now held two years apart. They were originally in the same year, and the stagger is a modern scheduling decision.

How the unit is structured

Winter Sports runs as 21 short steps that unlock in order. 15 are practice rounds and 6 are challenge rounds that pull together everything before them. Questions start at difficulty 2 and climb to 3 as you progress.

Step 1 · easierStep 21 · harder

Challenge rounds

Example questions

30 real questions from this unit, with the answer and the reason behind it, grouped by what they practise. There are 120 in the unit altogether.

Bobsled, Luge and Curling

Fact or fibLevel 2
1. In luge, athletes slide down the track feet first, lying on their back.
Answer: True
Luge athletes lie on their backs and go feet first down the icy track.
Fill the blankLevel 2
2. Luge athletes have no steering wheel, so they steer mainly with their legs and ____.
- shoulderscorrect
- a wheel
- a broom
- poles
Luge sliders steer by pressing with their legs and shoulders against the sled.
Guess the numberLevel 2
3. How many athletes ride together in a four-man bobsled?
Answer: 4 people
A four-man bobsled carries a crew of four: a pilot, two pushers, and a brakeman.
Match the pairsLevel 2
4. Match each sliding sport to how the athlete travels.
Answer: Luge = Feet first on your back; Skeleton = Head first on your stomach; Curling = Sliding stones on flat ice
Luge goes feet first, skeleton goes head first, and curling slides stones along flat ice.
Multiple choiceLevel 2
5. In which sliding sport do athletes go down the track head first, lying on their stomach?
- Skeletoncorrect
- Luge
- Bobsled
- Curling
In skeleton the athlete lies face down and races head first down the ice track.
Choose all that applyLevel 3
6. Which of these sliding sports are done lying down? Pick all that apply.
- Lugecorrect
- Skeletoncorrect
- Bobsled
- Curling
Luge and skeleton athletes lie down, while bobsledders sit and curlers stay upright.

Figure and Speed Skating

Build the sentenceLevel 2
7. Build a true sentence about speed skating.
Answer: Speed skaters race around an oval track
Speed skating races are held on oval ice tracks.
Fill the blankLevel 2
8. A figure skating jump with four rotations in the air is called a ____.
- quadcorrect
- double
- single
- spiral
A quad, short for quadruple, means the skater turns four full times in the air.
Multiple choiceLevel 2
9. How many different jumps are there in figure skating?
- Sixcorrect
- Three
- Ten
- Two
Figure skating has six jumps: the toe loop, salchow, loop, flip, lutz, and axel.
Choose all that applyLevel 3
10. Which of these are figure skating jumps? Pick all that apply.
- Lutzcorrect
- Salchowcorrect
- Toe loopcorrect
- Camel
The lutz, salchow, and toe loop are jumps, while the camel is a type of spin.
Fact or fibLevel 3
11. The axel jump has an extra half rotation because of its forward takeoff.
Answer: True
The forward takeoff means a triple axel is really three and a half rotations.
Match the pairsLevel 3
12. Match each skating term to the sport it belongs to.
Answer: Axel = Figure skating jump; Long track = Speed skating race; Ice dance = Figure skating duo
Figure skating has jumps and dance, while speed skating is a race.

Ice Hockey

Build the sentenceLevel 2
13. Build a true sentence about how hockey play begins.
Answer: A faceoff starts play in ice hockey
A faceoff, where the referee drops the puck between two players, starts play.
Choose all that applyLevel 2
14. Which of these are pieces of ice hockey equipment? Pick all that apply.
- Stickcorrect
- Puckcorrect
- Racket
- Stone
Hockey uses a stick and a puck, not a tennis racket or a curling stone.
Fact or fibLevel 2
15. A hockey goalie is not allowed to wear any padding.
Answer: False
Goalies wear heavy pads, a mask, a blocker, and a big glove for protection.
Fill the blankLevel 2
16. Scoring three goals in one game is called a ____ trick.
- hatcorrect
- goal
- power
- face
A hat trick is when one player scores three goals in a single game.
Match the pairsLevel 2
17. Match each hockey word to what it means.
Answer: Puck = The rubber disk; Zamboni = Ice cleaning machine; Hat trick = Three goals by one player
These are common hockey terms that every fan learns.
Multiple choiceLevel 2
18. How many players from one team are usually on the ice at once, including the goalie?
- Sixcorrect
- Five
- Eleven
- Nine
Each team keeps six players on the ice: five skaters plus a goalie.

Skiing

Choose all that applyLevel 2
19. Which of these are used in cross-country skiing? Pick all that apply.
- Skiscorrect
- Polescorrect
- Puck
- Snowboard
Cross-country skiers use long skis and poles to glide over the snow.
Fact or fibLevel 2
20. Slalom skiers must ski around a series of poles called gates.
Answer: True
In slalom, skiers weave through many closely spaced gates down the hill.
Fill the blankLevel 2
21. A skier who launches off a big ramp and flies through the air competes in ____.
- ski jumpingcorrect
- slalom
- curling
- luge
In ski jumping, athletes take off from a ramp and glide as far as they can.
Match the pairsLevel 2
22. Match each skiing event to how it is done.
Answer: Slalom = Weave through many close gates; Downhill = Fastest race on a long steep course; Ski jump = Fly off a ramp for distance
Each alpine or Nordic event has its own style and course.
Multiple choiceLevel 2
23. In alpine skiing, which event is the fastest, raced on the longest and steepest course?
- Downhillcorrect
- Slalom
- Giant slalom
- Super-G
The downhill is the fastest alpine race, where skiers reach very high speeds on a long, steep course.
Guess the numberLevel 3
24. On the large hill, ski jumpers often fly more than how many metres?
Answer: 120 metres
On the large hill, ski jumpers regularly soar well past 120 metres.

Snowboarding

Build the sentenceLevel 2
25. Build a true sentence about slopestyle snowboarding.
Answer: Slopestyle riders do tricks over rails and jumps
A slopestyle course is full of rails and jumps for riders to do tricks on.
Fact or fibLevel 2
26. Big air is a snowboard event built around one large jump.
Answer: True
In big air, riders perform a single spectacular trick off one huge jump.
Fill the blankLevel 2
27. Snowboarding first became a Winter Olympic sport in the year ____.
- 1998correct
- 1924
- 2010
- 1980
Snowboarding joined the Winter Olympics at the 1998 Nagano Games.
Multiple choiceLevel 2
28. Which snowboarding event is held in a U-shaped snow channel?
- Halfpipecorrect
- Slopestyle
- Big air
- Snowboard cross
The halfpipe is a U-shaped snow course where riders launch tricks off the curved walls.
Sort into groupsLevel 2
29. Sort each event under the sport it belongs to.
Answer: Slalom = Skiing; Ski jump = Skiing; Halfpipe = Snowboarding; Slopestyle = Snowboarding
Slalom and ski jump are skiing events, while halfpipe and slopestyle are snowboarding events.
Odd one outLevel 3
30. Which of these is NOT a snowboarding event?
- Downhillcorrect
- Halfpipe
- Slopestyle
- Big air
Downhill is an alpine skiing race, while the others are snowboarding events.

Where these questions come from. Each unit starts as a plan of the concepts it should cover and the difficulty it should span. Questions are written against that plan with AI assistance, then checked by a validator that rejects anything without a single defensible answer, an explanation, or plausible wrong options. How we write questions sets out the whole process, and corrections are fixed in the bank and reach the site and the app the same day.

How you practise

This unit mixes 14 different question formats, so you are recalling and applying rather than recognising the same layout every time.

Build the sentence
Choose all that apply
Fact or fib
Fill the blank
Guess the number
Match the pairs
Multiple choice
Odd one out
Picture question
Put in order
Sort into groups
Spell it
True or false
Type the answer

Practise Winter Sports

120 questions across 21 steps. Start with step one and crawl at your own pace.

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