In the Netherlands, thousands of people laced up their skates and headed out to skate in frozen lakes.
VOA: standard.2010.01.10
The phrase "commuting shoe" is enough to send many professional women over the footwear-edge, haunted by visions of modern day Working Girl troops in lacedup New Balances or pedicure-exposing Havaianas.
Kitesurfers, tug of war specialists, curlers and figure skaters will all have had to explain what first drove them to their sport of choice, while the rest of the world lacedup their football boots or took to the tennis court.
Like a once-quiet neighborhood cut up by an expressway and laced with off ramps, northeastern forests are changing because of the pipelines crisscrossing them amid the region's gas drilling boom, experts say.