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25 skate terms starting with S.
- Scorpion A fall where you land chest-first and momentum arches your legs up toward your head, like a scorpion.
- Sesh Short for "session": a stretch of skating, usually with your friends.
- Setup Your complete skateboard: deck, trucks, wheels, bearings, grip. What we call "your board".
- Shape The form of the deck: silhouette, nose and tail width, outline and concave.
- Shinner The classic crack of the board's edge into your shin when you blow a flip.
- Shred Verb. "To skate hard". Also used as a call: "let's shred!".
- Skate Rated Bones' rating for bearings. An alternative to the industrial ABEC scale, measuring what matters for skating.
- Skatepark Etiquette The unwritten rules of coexistence and respect inside a skatepark.
- Sketchy A trick that lands but ugly, with no style and a risk of falling. The opposite of "clean" or "steezy".
- Slam A hard fall. When you eat it bad with the board.
- Slide Sliding the board (not the trucks) along an edge or obstacle. The board sits perpendicular to the edge.
- Snake A skater who cuts into the middle of someone else's line at the park. Very frowned upon.
- Snake Run A winding course of curved walls connecting zones of a skatepark or bowl.
- Spacer A metal cylinder inside the wheel, between the two bearings. Stops them compressing when you tighten the axle nut.
- Speed Cream Bones' proprietary bearing lubricant. Included in many Bones packs.
- Speed Wobble Uncontrollable side-to-side oscillation of the board when you pick up too much speed.
- Spine Two quarter pipes set back to back with the coping joined at the top. Lets you do transfers.
- Sponsor-me tape A video an amateur skater sends to brands to get picked up. A 90s tradition that still exists.
- Spot Any place you skate. Can be an official park or an urban location.
- Stall Holding stationary on a ramp's coping for a moment. There are dozens of variants.
- Steeze The noun form of "steezy". The personal style with which a skater does tricks.
- Steezy A blend of "style" + "easy". Doing a trick with lots of style and apparent ease.
- Stoked Being really excited or hyped, usually about skating or about landing a trick.
- Street Skating urban obstacles: curbs, stairs, handrails, plazas. The most popular discipline in modern skating.
- Switch (stance) Skating the opposite of your natural stance: if you're regular, switch is skating as if you were goofy.