This paper discusses a phenomenological study of children`s experience of enjoyment in figure skating. The study`s objective was to explore and understand the lived experience of eight athletes aged 8 - 10 years. To achieve this objective, six female and two male athletes from three different ice skating clubs in the southeastern United States participated in a taped unstructured phenomenological interview. Interviews were subsequently transcribed and inductively analyzed, utilizing the hermeneutic circle (Pollio, Henley, & Thompson, 1997). The global themes that emerged from the data suggest that the young athletes ultimately enjoyed their time in figure skating when they were doing something for the First Time, Getting Better, Being Creative, Experiencing the Body, and being around Other People.
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