school figure

noun

1. (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.

Example Sentences

In late high school and early college, I held a string of random jobs: Skate School figure skating instructor, costumed cashier at a local Halloween store, dog walker, college entrance essay editor.

From Salon

Why can one school figure out how to live without such support and the other can’t?

From Washington Times

“I was making decent money for my age, and I just wanted to finish school, figure out my life and my passion and not have to worry about the responsibility of another human being.”

From The Guardian

In 1999, she was the national champion in School Figure, a technique of making figure-eight patterns on the ice.

From Washington Post

The concept sounds simple: take a good school, figure out what’s happening to make students successful, and re-create those elements to spread the success somewhere else.

From Los Angeles Times