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• n  the sport of skating on a skateboard
• v  ride on a flat board with rollers attached to the bottom

• In growing numbers, women are taking up skateboarding.
• Youths in Kabul have turned an empty swimming pool built during the Soviet occupation into a skateboarding park.
• While the X Games have helped legitimize now mainstream sports like skateboarding and snowboarding, the annual competition also feeds an audience hunger for life-threatening .

• skateboard

News & Articles

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• Numbers for Go Skateboarding Day down but skaters looking forward to new park
  Despite participant numbers smaller than past years for Go Skateboarding Day, there were plenty of festivities Friday night as skateboarders, scooter enthusiasts and bikers headed to the new youth center.
  June 22, 2013 - Today's News-Herald
• Photos: Skateboarding day
  Photos: Skateboarding day ALBANY -- A National Go Skateboarding Day event was held Friday in Washington Park.
  June 21, 2013 - Albany Times Union
• Skateboarding Day poker run Friday
  ST. JOSEPH - Third Coast Surf Shop in St. Joseph will host a skateboarding poker run to celebrate International Go Skateboarding Day starting at 10:30 a.m. Friday.
  June 20, 2013 - The Herald-Palladium

Quotes

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• Shaun White in AFP
  It?s pretty cool that Ubisoft is making a conscious effort to go green with its new video game packaging,White said. "I?m excited for my new skateboarding game to come out and stoked that it will be the very first Ubisoft game to be part...
• Christopher Nolan in ABC Online
  Silently, I curse the moment that Heath first skated onto our set in full character make-up,Nolan wrote in US magazine Newsweek. "I'd fretted about the reaction of Batman fans to a skateboarding Joker, but the actual result was a...