Four skating

A four skating group in 1939 - from left, Montgomery Wilson, Hazel Caley, Dorothy Caley, and Ralph McCreath

Four skating is a figure skating and artistic roller skating discipline that has been primarily competed in Canada and to a lesser extent in the United States. Fours teams consist of two women and two men. The discipline is similar to pair skating, with elements including overhead lifts, twist lifts, death spirals, and throw jumps, as well as the elements of single skating in unison, pairs elements in unison and unique elements that involve all four skaters.