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Skateboarding

Skateboarding

📖 In short

A skateboard is a small, long board on four wheels. The skater stands on it and pushes off the ground with one foot to go, which needs balance and skill. Skilled skaters jump and spin with it in amazing tricks.

🤩 Did you know?

  • Skateboard wheels are made of a strong plastic called polyurethane.
  • Skilled skaters can spin 360 degrees in the air.
  • There are skateparks with ramps and bowls.
  • Skateboarding entered the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

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🌟 Parts of the board

The board is usually made of strong layers of wood, with rough grip paper on top to stop slipping, and underneath two metal axles with four hard plastic wheels.

🔍 From surfing

Surfers in California invented the skateboard more than sixty years ago, so they could practice their sport on land when the sea was calm with no waves!

💡 Famous tricks

Famous tricks include the jump where the skater taps the back of the board with their foot so it leaps into the air with them, and the full 360-degree spin.

🎯 An Olympic sport

Skateboarding became an Olympic sport at the Tokyo Games, and very young athletes won medals. But learning it always needs a helmet and pads.

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Skateboarding

🧩 Test yourself

1 How many wheels does a skateboard have?

2 Who invented the skateboard?

3 Skilled skaters can spin ?? degrees in the air.

4 Which picture shows “Skateboarding”?

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📷 Picture sources: Wikimedia Commons