Definition: "Traveling" means the blade's tracings are not centered during a figure skating spin.
Examples: Traveling is an error; a figure skater's goal is to stop spins from traveing and to center all spins.
Traveling
By Jo Ann Schneider Farris, About.com
The Tracing of This Spin Is Traveling and Is Not Centered
Illustration by Janet Champion
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