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Skiing Wallpapers

Skiing Wallpapers - its a pack of 100+ impressive HD wallpaper images for your tablet or phone.

This app contains only high quality Skiing images and allows you to set them on your background or download HD image to your device.

Main features:

- Only high-resolution images

- Only the best, bright images

- New pictures every week

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The word 'ski' has its origins in the Norwegian word skíð which means a piece of wood!

During the later part of the 19th century, skiing was considered more of a 'man's sport' and women were encouraged to take up skating instead!

Skiing as a competitive sport is generally classified as Alpine, Nordic and Freestyle skiing. Broadly speaking about differences, in alpine skiing people ski with fixed heel bindings, Nordic skiing does not have a fixed heel, and freestyle skiing involves jumps and performance based routines.

The first recorded downhill skiing race was held in Sweden, in 1879. Alpine skiing as a sport made its Winter Olympic debut in the year 1936.

Harrison Schmitt, a crew member of the space shuttle Apollo 17, said that astronauts heading to the moon should learn the art of cross-country skiing. He believed that the technique involved in skiing helped walking on the moon and even envisioned people setting off for 'lunar skiing holidays'!

The popularity of skiing can be gauged from the fact that around 80 countries in the world offer some form of ski area, and about 350 million people visit ski resorts or areas annually, all across the globe.

Skiing, to be more specific, speed skiing is one of the fastest non-motorized sports on land. Italian skier Simone Origone currently holds the world record for the fastest downhill ski, clocking 156.2 miles/hour!

If you think downhill skiing involves just balancing on skis and letting gravity work for you, then you couldn't be further from the truth. While skiing downhill with moderate effort, you can burn around 350-400 calories per hour!

Telemark bindings that bind the ski to the plastic boot were invented by Norwegian Sondre Norheim. His invention made it possible for skiers to jump in the air, a feat that was impossible to achieve using erstwhile ski designs.

Skiing is extremely popular in the US with 40 states having ski resorts. Vail Mountain Resort in Colorado is the nation's largest and most visited ski resort. Around 1.5 million visitors enjoy skiing at the 5,289 acre resort annually.