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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', Tigger sees Rabbit ice skating and decides to try it himself. He starts of pretty well, but soon gets into an uncontrollable spin which leads to him crashing into [[ButtMonkey Rabbit]]. After this he decides Tiggers ''don't'' like ice skating.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic,'' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Twilight tries to help score the ice]] [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows so it will melt]], but is so terrible at it, that she quickly loses control, and crashes into Pinkie Pie and Spike, who all then end up as a pony snowman.

** Sis has done this, twice on covers. [[http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/iss/400w/182/191821/875551.jpg Katy Keene #27]] and [[http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/iss/600w/255/352551/7565331_1.jpg Pin-Up Parade #13.]] Franchise/ArchieComics even repeated the joke with Veronica and Archie in [[http://www.archiecomics.com/Portals/0/add237.600.jpg a recent digest cover.]][[note]]For some reason, ''perhaps'' RuleOfGlamorous, each cover includes at least one girl wearing a skating dress [[PimpedOutDress trimmed]] with [[PrettyInMink white fur]].[[/note]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic,'' [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Twilight tries to help score the ice]] [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows so it will melt]], but is so terrible at it, that she quickly loses control, and crashes into Pinkie Pie and Spike, who all then end up as a pony snowman.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' dealt with [[ConjoinedTwins Zak and Wheezie]] learning how to ice skate, so that the gang could attend the birthday party of a seal who lives in said icy area. The fact that they both share the same body, and that they have conflicting personalities makes the prospect difficult.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'''s second season has Caleb attempt to ice skate in order to win back Cornelia's heart after events from the season's first two episodes, competing with Taranee's older brother. However, events in the episode conspire to get the two back together and the episode ends with Cornelia aiding Caleb in ice skating.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In Episode 105, near the beginning, Kaeloo tries to show Mr. Cat all the fun activities that one can engage in during winter. She tries to show him ice skating, but he can barely move without falling.
* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' usually had as much trouble with his roller skates as he would with ice skates [[note]]Oddly enough, he never had ice skates to begin with[[/note]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "D.W. on Ice" has D.W. bragging that she's a great skater before an upcoming winter party; when she starts skating, she doesn't do very well. In "The Good Sport," Francine thinks figure skating is easy until [[ItMakesSenseInContext Michelle Kwan pulls her into a TV and onto an ice rink]], where she admits that skating is hard.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' dealt with [[TwoBeingsOneBody Zak and Wheezie]] learning how to ice skate, so that the gang could attend the birthday party of a seal who lives in said icy area. Considering the fact that they share the same body, it’s understandable why’d they’d have difficulty skating.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' dealt with [[TwoBeingsOneBody Zak and Wheezie]] learning how to ice skate, so that the gang could attend the birthday party of a seal who lives in said icy area.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' dealt with Zak and Wheezie learning how to ice skate, so that the gang could attend the birthday party of a seal who lives in said icy area.

* Disney/{{Bambi}}, even though he wasn't wearing skates, had a hard time on the ice, despite the fact that other animals were skating around just fine.

* ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'':

* In ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', Tigger sees Rabbit ice skating and decides to try it himself. He starts of pretty well, but soon gets into an uncontrollable spin which leads to him crashing into [[ButtMonkey Rabbit]]. After this he decides Tiggers ''don't'' like ice skating.

* On the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShort "On Ice", this happens to Minnie Mouse (when Mickey is teaching her to skate) and to Pluto (when Donald ties skates on his paws while he's asleep and pushes him into the ice).

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, ice-skating is used as a back-handed punishment by [[CanadaEh Quirmian Acerian]] teacher Mlle de Badin-Boucher. Given a gifted but misbehaving pupil to rein in, Antoinette thinks hard about what would be both exquisite punishment and a constructive learning experience for a [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica Rimwards Howondalandian]] pupil. Her version of the Vimes Run for a difficult student Assassin is to take her to the local ice-skating venue[[note]] Antoinette de Badin-Boucher discovered a place in Ankh-Morp-ork with a large flat area and sub-zero temperatures. She got into trouble as a student Assassin for breaking into the Pork Futures Warehouse to practice her skating. As a graduate, she approached the PFW's management with a money-spinning idea. Ankh-Morpork therefore got a venue for ice-skating and [[HockeyFight ice hockey]].[[/note]] and to ''force'' her to learn to skate to an approved standard. The student in question, from a generally warm part of Howondaland, accepted this was meant to be Hell On Disc and admitted her native country would never be a force at the [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Hubland Winter Games]].

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* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Ranma and Ry!ga, in the first three episodes of the second season, and the manga they are adapted from, prove to be almost completely incompetent as ice-skaters. So bad is Ranma that he turns himself into a girl so that he's less embarrassed... only to end up skidding into PrettyBoy {{Jerkass}} Mikado, who gives Ranma-chan her FirstKiss.

* Franchise/ArchieComics:
** There was a story where Jughead was trying to get his dog Hot Dog to skate with him because he refuses to skate with a girl. The instant Hot Dog gets on the ice, he starts slipping and wobbling around on the ice because he had weak ankles. It's {{subverted|Trope}} afterwards when Jughead fixes the problem by adding an extra ice skate to Hot Dog's tail, causing Hot Dog to become a skating ace, much to Jughead's chagrin.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Silly {{pun}}, but [[TruthInTelevision so true.]]]]

* There was an Franchise/{{Archie Comics}} story where Jughead was trying to get his dog Hot Dog to skate with him because he refuses to skate with a girl. The instant Hot Dog gets on the ice, he starts slipping and wobbling around on the ice because he had weak ankles. It's [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] afterwards when Jughead fixes the problem by adding an extra ice skate to Hot Dog's tail, causing Hot Dog to become a skating ace, much to Jughead's chagrin.

Compare EpicFail and FrictionlessIce, as well as the SlippySlideyIceWorld, where your PlayerCharacter is the one liable to have FailuresOnIce. Contrast OnIce.

Many works of fiction are set in the right place and right time for it to be cold enough to experience snow, and for lakes, ponds and the like to freeze over. There are also those stories set in and/or near ice-skating rinks. Naturally, either way, one character or another will want to try ice-skate on such a frozen body--or not, but is peer-pressured into doing so.

Many works of fiction are set in the right place and right time for it to be cold enough to experience snow, and for lakes, ponds and the like to freeze over. There are also those stories set in and/or near ice-skating rinks. Naturally, either way, one character or another will want to try ice-skate on such a frozen body, or not, but is peer-pressured into doing so.

->''We're slipping on the ice!''\\
''Just slipping on the ice!''\\
''For a fabulous pratfall''\\
''Just follow this advice!''\\
''Let your feet take a flip!''\\
''I've broken my hip!''\\
''We're slipping, and sliding, on the ice!''
-->-- "Slipping on the Ice," ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''

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->''We're slipping on the ice!''
->''Just slipping on the ice!''
->''For a fabulous pratfall''
->''Just follow this advice!''
->''Let your feet take a flip!''
->''I've broken my hip!''
->''We're slipping, and sliding, on the ice!''

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': Mac wins a chance to take a shot from center ice at a Flyers game, but he doesn't know how to skate. [[SubvertedTrope Despite that]], he skates out perfectly and makes the shot. [[spoiler: Actually, he fell as soon as he stepped onto the ice and imagined everything while unconscious.]]
* A slight variation on ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' in which Ted stated he had taken skating lessons when [[spoiler: Barney changes his and Robin's rehearsal dinner to a Canadian themed ice skating rink]]. He falls within his first loop around the rink.

* A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch featured Creator/ChrisFarley as a figure skater, repeatedly falling down, with Creator/PhilHartmann providing commentary.