Sentence examples for skaters from inspiring English sources

So-called "skateboard urbanism" reflects the ways that spaces in cities are being created or protected for skateboarding, with the will and commitment of active groups of skaters and their advocates.

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Some parts of the undercroft that I used to skate have long since been redeveloped – the sport's history lies in the way skaters have adapted to their environment – but a shopping arcade, however bijou, that removes the remaining banks and rails will be the kiss of death for a modern landmark in urban youth culture.

But many of the area's younger skaters are not so convinced.

Through word of mouth, we found out that a small group of skaters had colonised the undercroft of the Southbank Centre.

The other skaters seemed impossibly cool, performing tricks and turns we'd never seen before, but when the banks were clear we dared to have a go.

I stopped skating a year or two later, but I often make a point of going back to watch the skaters whenever I'm on the South Bank.

Proposals for the centre's £120m Festival Wing complex will see the concrete undercroft beneath the Queen Elizabeth Hall, which has been a mecca for skaters since the 1970s, transformed into restaurants and shops.

The 30-year-old designer's creations are stocked from South Korea to Sweden and last year to took a crew of street-cast Moscow skaters to launch his 2015 menswear collection in Paris.

"People don't resign for a slip of the tongue," said McGuire, who in 2011 called an area of western Sydney "the land of the falafel" and the year before described male skaters competing in the winter Olympics not leaving "anything in the closet".

The New South Wales anti-discrimination board investigated McGuire after he made allegedly homophobic remarks directed at male ice skaters during the winter Olympics in 2010.