street skating
Pavement trick riding
Street skating is skateboarding performed on urban terrain—stairs, handrails, ledges, benches, and other architectural features—rather than in purpose-built skateparks or on ramps.
The style emphasizes adapting tricks to found environments: He learned to skate doing street skating in downtown plazas.
Street skating shaped modern skateboarding culture and remains its dominant form.
- kickflipLengthwise board rotation trick
- ollieHandsfree skateboard jump
- trucksHeavy cargo vehicles
- grindCrush into particles
- heelflipSkateboard trick, board spins laterally
flat ground · ledges · curbs · manual · skateboard · boardslide · rail slide · plazas · sponsorships · zines · gaps · wheels · graffiti art · fakie · parking lots · handrails · bearings · shove-it
- skatingice dancing, ice dance, short track, beginner class, private lessons
- roller skatingroller rink, inline skates, skate wheels, rollerblades, skate parks
- skating termsskateboarding, ice rink, roller rink, ice dance, skate parks
- Wheeled Sportsskateboarding, rollerblading, BMX, longboarding, scootering
- street sportsparkour, skateboarding, streetball, freerunning, BMX
- Skateboardingskateboard, ollie, skateboarding, kickflip, grind
skating venue/environment
street skatingvert
Upright orientation, abbreviated
bowl skating · mega ramp · big air · halfpipe · longboarding