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  2. List of skateboarding terms - Wikipedia

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    This is a skateboarding related list that defines everything, maneuver, venue, and physics terms that are important to skateboarding. These terms are commonly used in the vocabulary of a skateboarder in order to reference specific parts, tricks, and locations efficiently.

  3. Glossary of figure skating terms - Wikipedia

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    A The scoring abbreviation for the Axel jump [1] age-eligible Either "old enough" or "young enough" to compete internationally at a certain level. Skaters who have turned 13 but not yet 19 (21 for the man in pairs and ice dance) before the July 1 when a new season begins are eligible to compete in Junior-level events for the whole season.

  4. Category:Sports terminology - Wikipedia

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    For glossaries of terms, please place the glossaries in Category:Glossaries of sports and, if one exists, the sport-specific subcategory of Category:Sports terminology. Do not a create a sport-specific subcategory just to hold a lone glossary article (it will just get up-merged again at WP:CFD ).

  5. How to Talk Like an Olympic Skateboarder

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    As you watch the Olympic event with your non-skateboarding pals, or just pass by a bunch of kids scraping rails on their boards in your neighborhood, you need to know how to sound cool. Or, to put ...

  6. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Figure skating terminology

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    The terms "mohawk" and "choctaw" should not be lowercased, as they are named after the respective Native American people. C step and S step: With the aim to "decolonize figure skating terminology", Skate Canada officially changed the terms "Mohawk turn" to "C step" and "Choctaw turn" to "S step", named after the shape of their skating traces. [22]

  7. Frontside and backside - Wikipedia

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    When applied to slides involving obstacles, backside and frontside take on different meaning: the terms define how the obstacle is being approached. For example, when performing a frontside boardslide, "frontside" means that the obstacle (e.g. rail or ledge) is to the front (the toe-side) of the skateboarder.

  8. Flip trick - Wikipedia

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    A varial flip is a type of skateboarding trick in which the skateboard rotates around its vertical axis, or its vertical axis and its horizontal axis simultaneously. The first flip trick, called a kickflip but originally known as a "magic flip", was invented by professional skateboarder Rodney Mullen.

  9. Boardsport - Wikipedia

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    There are four main types of snowskates: Single deck (a skateboard-deck-like platform made out of either wood and/or plastic; Bilevel (similar to a skate board but, instead of trucks and wheels, a small ski with metal edges called a subdeck is used with special trucks to be used on a ski hill); 4x4 (a skateboard but the wheels are replaced by ...