"ocho afuera"

Question

I've got a Peanuts cartoon in Spanish and I'm uncertain as to the phrase "ocho afuera". On the comic strip, the phrase is actually in quotation marks. I know it reads: Here is the world famous skater practicing his .. "ocho afuera". Is there a type of figure 8 that would be called an "outside 8". This is the text from the strip:

Aquí está el patinador mundialmente famoso practicando sus “ocho afuera”

Answer 1

It sounds like a skating move because of the context, and because of the 8, I think it's safe to assume the idea is to describe the shape of the number 8 on the ground/ice with your skates... like so: