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How did skiing begin?

You may think that skiing is a modern sport, but in fact, it is one of the oldest forms of traveling known. The word itself comes from an Icelandic word which means snowshoe or piece of wood. Some scientists say that skiing goes back to the Stone Age. All of them believe that ancient people of Scandinavia could ski very well and made skis of the bones of animals. There is even a picture on stone that is nine hundred years old that shows a ski runner. Skiing as a sport began in Norway. This northern country has always had snowy winters, and there was a lot of snow in the fields and in the woods for many months. So people used skis to get about. They used skis in winter when they went hunting in forests or mountains, and also when they went to visit neighbors or had to go to the market. And if you think that ski races are a modern tradition, you are wrong again. It may surprise you to know that they were having ski competitions back in seventeen sixty-seven.