Add Speedskating as an activity type

[DouweGVisser]

As a frequent and happy user of the Strava app, there is one request that has been on my mind… I am quite a fanatic speedskater in wintertime and this doesn’t seem to be a sport that is on Strava’s radar screen (maybe the recent success series of the USA speed skater Jordan Stolz will change this….).

The only icon that Strava has available for skating during wintertime at this moment is actually “figure skating” which is very, very different from speedskating on a 400m ice-ring (like the one in Salt Lake City in the USA).

Can you consider adding Speedskating icon to your selected Strava sports list with a corresponding icon? This would make my speed skating training efforts more real and accurate.

[Jane]

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[Scout]

Hello and thank you to everyone who has taken the time to add your votes and comments to this request. 

We want to let you know that we do not intend to add more activity/sport types to Strava in the foreseeable future, and this feature suggestion will be moved to a status of not currently planned.

We appreciate and understand this is not the answer you were hoping for. We strive to be as transparent as possible and provide updates to our Community when they become available. 

Please remember that we receive a large number of idea submissions, and even some  popular ideas may not make it to the implementation stage. The number of votes an idea gets is one factor among several that’s considered when our product team develops the roadmap.

For more information, review our Guide to Ideas.

Additionally, a status of not currently planned does not mean this feature suggestion goes away. It will remain open to votes and comments, and may be revisited at some point in the future.

Lastly, we sincerely hope you will continue recording and uploading your activities to Strava. Here is a list of the Sport types that we currently support. It’s always an option to set your activity to sport type “workout” and indicate more specifics in the activity name.

Thanks again for your contributions.