Skeleton is a winter sliding sport in which a person rides a small sled, known as a skeleton bobsled (or bobsleigh), down a frozen track while lying face down and head-first. The sport and the sled may have been named from the bony appearance of the sled.

2022年2月4日 · Skeleton is one of 15 sports in the 2022 Winter Olympics. But what exactly is it? Why does it look so bizarre and how do you win? Here's an explainer.

By combining gravity, kinetic energy, aerodynamics, and an athlete's movements -- and a mix of luck and skill riding the shortest path down a track -- a skeleton slider can reach over 132 kilometers/80 miles per hour. Surprisingly, skeleton is actually the slowest of the three sled sports.

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Skeleton is a winter sport featured in the Winter Olympics where the competitor rides head-first and prone (lying face down) on a flat sled. It is normally run on an ice track that allows the sled to gain speed by gravity.

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2022年1月12日 · No matter the origin of its unusual name, skeleton rose to fame in the 1920s. It officially became an Olympic sport in 1926, and, two years later, Jennison Heaton took home the first gold medal in skeleton at the Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

2018年2月1日 · The spectacle of human bodies on an ice track, hurtling headfirst at speeds of up to 90 m.p.h., can make skeleton unsettling enough merely to watch. For the athletes, it’s even more extreme.

Skeleton is a Winter Olympic sport, the essence of which is downhill sliding on a double-runner sled along the ice-covered run. The ancestor of the skeleton is considered to be a toboggan downhill, which was popular among North American Indians. In the mid-19th century, tourist sled rides along the snow-covered slopes of the Alps were very popular.

The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation is the international organization that administers the sports of bobsleigh and skeleton.