Trope · 108 books
Figure skater hockey romance
Figure skater hockey romance puts a hockey player and a figure skater on the same rink, usually fighting over ice time. It is one of the most beloved setups in the genre, helped along by a certain pink-covered bestseller.
Top figure skater hockey romance books
108 ranked · showing 48 
Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey
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Grumpy / sunshine · Figure skater · Found family · Secret relationship 
The Husband Game
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Marriage of convenience · Figure skater · Forced proximity · Opposites attract 
Thrown for a Loop
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Second chance · Figure skater · Enemies to lovers · Forced proximity 
Like Real People Do
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Enemies to lovers · Friends to lovers · Figure skater · Secret relationship 
It's a Love/Skate Relationship
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Enemies to lovers · Figure skater · Forced proximity · Opposites attract Spinning to the Goal
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Figure skater · Grumpy / sunshine · Opposites attract · Found family 
Kiss to Defy
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Enemies to lovers · Figure skater · Grumpy / sunshine · Opposites attract About to Bloom
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Brother's best friend · Figure skater · Opposites attract · Found family 
The Play Maker
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Figure skater · Opposites attract · Grumpy / sunshine · Friends to lovers Puck Around and Find Out
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Enemies to lovers · Figure skater · Forced proximity · Forbidden Goalies Don't Date Ice Princesses
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Figure skater · Brother's best friend · Secret relationship · Forced proximity 
Why figure skater works on the ice
The rivalry is built in. Rinks have limited ice, and both sports think they are the harder one. Each lead gets to be impressed by the other's skill whether they like it or not.
Expect enemies to lovers, forced proximity and a skating lesson at some point, often the hockey player learning a lift or the skater learning to take a hit.
This is a small, focused group with a lot of college stories and a strong M/M showing, including ice-dance and pairs-skater heroes.
Readers who love these books often reach for opposites attract hockey romance, enemies to lovers hockey romance and forced proximity hockey romance next. You can also browse every hockey romance trope or go back to the full hockey romance directory.
New to the genre? Wikipedia covers the history of the romance novel and how a game of ice hockey works.
Best M/M figure skater hockey romance books
Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey
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Grumpy / sunshine · Figure skater · Found family · Secret relationship The Husband Game
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Marriage of convenience · Figure skater · Forced proximity · Opposites attract Best college figure skater hockey romance books
Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey
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Grumpy / sunshine · Figure skater · Found family · Secret relationship Slow burn figure skater hockey romance: lower-heat picks
Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey
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Grumpy / sunshine · Figure skater · Found family · Secret relationship Questions about figure skater hockey romance
What is the best figure skater hockey romance book?
Readers' favorite is Icebreaker by Hannah Grace, followed by Breakaway by Grace Reilly and Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu. Our ranking blends how many Goodreads readers rated each book with how often it appears on readers' own hockey romance lists.
Are there M/M figure skater hockey romance books?
Yes. 31 of the 108 books here are M/M, led by Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu and Deep Edge by R.J. Scott.
How spicy are figure skater hockey romance books?
37% are rated spicy or scorching on our five-point heat scale. 68 are slow burn or sweeter, such as Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu.
Are figure skater hockey romance books set in college or the pros?
53 are set in pro hockey and 30 on college teams; the rest follow minor league, junior or retired players.