Skateboarding Word Search

Fifteen skateboarding words hidden in one grid, from Deck to Kickflip, with the answer key on a second page.

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SkaterSKATER
DeckDECK
NoseNOSE
TailTAIL
TrucksTRUCKS
WheelsWHEELS
HelmetHELMET
RampRAMP
RailRAIL
BowlBOWL
PushPUSH
OllieOLLIE
KickflipKICKFLIP
GrabGRAB
GrindGRIND

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PNTFRENMRDTANTC

ERIPXHGIAGXGYIE

OEEXAHELMETFRLL

NSGPDNXOPURMQTD

SCRRSIEBUTUIREC

ILISDKHOSRCUSAS

OBNOSERWHAKOWKP

LMDZUEMLGISTBIU

LLPLGWRIELODECK

IOLHSHGGIGIGMKM

EGVNKEIBAMLRAFN

LUWLAEAUTTAAFLA

XCJATLIORACBBIQ

WUERESHGRIYTHPL

EUAARCSAELRVHCU

SKATER, DECK, NOSE, TAIL, TRUCKS, WHEELS, HELMET, RAMP, RAIL, BOWL, PUSH, OLLIE, KICKFLIP, GRAB, GRIND

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The Board 29

Axle The metal rod through a truck, with a wheel on each end.
Baseplate The part of a truck that is fixed to the underside of the board.
Bearings They let a wheel turn smoothly on its axle. There are two inside each wheel.
Bolts With nuts and screws, the small fasteners that hold the trucks on.
Bushing A donut-shaped piece of polyurethane that sits on the kingpin.
Concave Curved like the inside of a spoon. A board must be shaped this way for tricks.
Deck The main part of the board, the part a rider stands on.
Durometer The measure of how hard a wheel is.
Graphic The picture on the underside of a board.
Grip tape A sheet like sandpaper stuck on top of the board so that feet do not slip.
Hanger The part of a truck that holds the axle.
Hardware The nuts, screws and other small fasteners that hold a board's parts on.
Kingpin The bolt that holds a truck together. Tightening it changes how the board turns.
Longboard A bigger board used for higher speed and for rough ground.
Maple The wood that boards are typically made of.

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The Board, continued

Nose The front end of the board.
Plank The first boards were likely one of these with roller-skate wheels fixed on.
Plies The thin layers of wood that are laminated together to make a board.
Plywood Layered wood. A usual board is seven or eight layers of it.
Polyurethane The material that wheels are typically made of.
Shortboard With the longer kind, one of the two main types of board.
Skateboard A board on four wheels, moved by pushing with one foot.
Tail The rear end of the board, which usually curves up a little.
Trucks The two metal assemblies that join the wheels to the board and let it turn.
Wax Street skaters rub a block of it onto stone to cut friction before a trick.
Wedge A piece that can be added to change how a truck turns.
Wheel bite When a wheel touches the board in a turn and is slowed or stopped.
Wheelbase How far apart the front and back wheels are.
Wheels A board rolls on four, usually made of polyurethane.

The Skatepark 28

Bank A plain wedge of a slope for getting up onto or over something.
Bench A piece of street furniture that skaters do tricks on.
Bowl A completely enclosed hollow of curved walls that meet in rounded corners.
Concrete The material that custom-built parks are made of.
Coping The narrow metal rod along the top edge of a ramp.
Cradle A round bowl turned on its side, where a skater can carve upside down.
Curb The edge of a sidewalk, one of the first places skaters slid and ground.
Ditch A drainage one is a street spot. Early aerial tricks were done in them.
Flat The level area at the bottom, between two curved walls.
Funbox Banks, flats and rails joined together to make one thing to skate.
Gap A space to clear. A funbox is built to make small ones.
Half-pipe A U-shaped ramp. Most have a flat section between the two curved sides.
Hip Two curved ramps or banks that meet at an angle.
Kicker A curved bank that sends a rider up into the air.
Ledge One of the things, like curbs and rails, that grinds are done on.
Lip The top edge of a ramp, where balance tricks are done.
Mini ramp A ramp shorter than the rider, not tall enough to reach vertical.
Obstacle Anything a skater does a trick around, on, onto or over.
Pool A swimming one, drained, makes a place to skate.
Pyramid Four banks set in a square shape, usually around a flat top.
Quarter pipe A single curved ramp. Two facing each other make a bigger structure.
Rail A bar to slide or grind along. One set level with the ground is a flatbar.
Roll-in A long slope that riders start down to pick up speed.
Skatepark A place designed for skating, with ramps, rails, bowls and more.
Spine Two curved ramps placed back to back with no platform between them.
Staircase A set of steps. Street skaters use it and its handrail.
Transition The change from a level surface to an upright one; also the curve that makes it.
Vert ramp A tall ramp whose steep sides stand truly vertical near the top.

Ollies, Flips and Airs 23

Air Riding with every wheel off the ground.
Backside Said of a trick done with the rider's back turned to the ramp or obstacle.
Catch What the feet do to the board once it has finished turning.
Frontside Said of a trick done with the rider facing the ramp or obstacle.
Grab Holding the board with a hand while floating in the air.
Hardflip A kickflip in which the board also spins frontside.
Heelflip A jump in which the front heel sends the board rolling the opposite way.
Hippie jump An old trick: leap over a bar and land on the board again as it rolls under.
Kickflip A jump in which the front toe kicks the board into a full roll.
Landing Coming back down onto the board. Wider trucks make it steadier.
Laserflip A heelflip joined with a full-turn frontside shove-it.
Launch To take off from a ramp. A vert ramp sends a rider straight up.
No comply The front foot steps down onto the ground while the back foot sends the board round.
Ollie A jump made by snapping the tail down and sliding the front foot forward.
Pop Striking the tail against the ground to send the board upward.
Revert A pivot done straight after an air.
Rotation A turn in the air. Aerial tricks usually join one with a grab.
Scoop To push the tail down and sideways, the move that starts a shove-it.
Shove-it The back foot pushes the tail so that the board spins half a turn under the rider.
Snap The sharp strike of the tail that starts an ollie.
Spin A turn of the board or the body. Mixing these with flips is very popular.
Tre flip A full-turn shove-it and a kickflip done together.
Trick A maneuver done on a board, often with flips, turns or time in the air.

Grinds, Slides and Ground Moves 21

Balance What the standing foot must keep while the other one pushes.
Boardslide Sliding the underside of the board along an object.
Carve To skate in a long arc that curves.
Dancing Walking and cross-stepping along a moving longboard.
Fifty-fifty A grind on both trucks. Its name is written with two numbers.
Five-o A grind on the rear truck alone, with the nose held up.
Footbraking Slowing down by dragging one shoe on the road.
Grind Riding along a curb, a railing or another edge on one or both truck axles.
Kickturn Riding up a ramp or slope, turning at the top and riding down again.
Lipslide Like a boardslide, but turned so that the back trucks pass over the rail first.
Manual Riding along on only two wheels.
Noseslide Sliding the underside of the front end along a ledge, rail or lip.
Pivot Spinning on only the back wheels.
Pump To build speed in a bowl or half-pipe with the legs alone.
Push To move the board along with one foot on the ground and one foot on top.
Sliding Turning the board sideways to skid. Downhill riders brake this way.
Stall A stop balanced on top of a ramp. The axle kind rests on both trucks.
Tailslide Sliding the underside of the back end along a ledge or lip.
Tic-tac Swinging the whole body and board to one side and then the other, over and over.
Tuck The low crouch a downhill racer holds to slip through the air.
Wheelie Another name for riding on only two wheels.

Riders, Styles and History 30

California The state where the sport was likely born around 1950.
Cones Plastic markers on a slalom course. Each one hit adds time.
Cruising Covering distance at a moderate speed. Longboards are designed for it.
Downhill Said of racing in which riders tuck low and brake by sliding.
Elbow pads Protective gear for the middle joint of the arm.
Fakie Rolling backward while standing the normal way.
Freestyle Probably the oldest style: technical tricks on flat ground.
Friction The resistance one surface meets when it moves on another.
Gloves Longboarders wear the sliding kind to put a hand down on the road.
Goofy Said of a rider who leads with the right foot.
Gravity On a downward slope it moves board and rider with no pushing at all.
Helmet Head protection that many places require a rider to wear.
Knee pads Leg protection. An improved kind has a hard cap that slides.
Nollie A jump snapped off the nose, so that the back wheels come up first.
Ramp A sloped surface to ride up. A kickturn can be done on any one.
Regular Said of a rider who leads with the left foot.
Roller skates The first boards likely took their wheels from these.
Shoes Grip tape is there so that these stay on the board.
Sidewalk The sport was first called surfing of this kind.
Skater A person who rides a board.
Slalom A race downhill that weaves through a line of plastic markers.
Speed wobble When a fast board turns unstable and starts to shake from side to side.
Stance The way a rider stands on the board: left foot leading, or right.
Street The style that uses stairs, handrails, benches and curbs.
Surfers The sport was likely born when those in California had no waves to ride.
Switch Riding with the opposite foot forward from usual.
Traction What grip tape provides, so that the feet can move the board.
Vert The style ridden on ramps and in empty pools, from the flat up to the vertical.
Waves The sport likely began on days when these were flat.
Wrist guards Protective gear worn on the lower arms.

How this list was compiled: Skateboarding words chosen and defined for this site in five themed lists (the board; the skatepark; ollies, flips and airs; grinds, slides and ground moves; riders, styles and history), with a favorites list, an easy list and a hard list. Terms were checked on 2026-10-16 against the English Wikipedia articles List of skateboarding terms, Skateboard, Skateboarding, Skateboarding trick, Skatepark, Skateboarding styles, Shove-it, Kickturn, Lip trick, Grind (skateboarding), Slide (skateboarding), Aerial (skateboarding), Vert ramp, Grip tape, Footedness, Slalom skateboarding, Longboard (skateboard), Longboarding and Street skateboarding, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_skateboarding_terms (CC BY-SA 4.0), and spellings against Wiktionary, https://en.wiktionary.org/. Every meaning is in our own words. No skater, team, contest, park or brand is named, and no trick is listed whose name is a skater's surname. The list names things and gives no safety advice. Licence: own work

How it works

This skateboarding word search opens on five parts of the board, Deck, Nose, Tail, Trucks and Wheels, the tricks Ollie, Kickflip, Grab and Grind, and Ramp, Rail, Bowl and Helmet. Every word has a one-line meaning.

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Five lists, from the deck to the half-pipe

Start from a list has The Board (Kingpin, Bearings, Grip tape), The Skatepark (Half-pipe, Coping, Funbox), Ollies, Flips and Airs (Heelflip, Shove-it, Pop), Grinds, Slides and Ground Moves (Boardslide, Manual, Carve) and Riders, Styles and History (Goofy, Vert, Slalom).

An easy list and a hard one

Easy Skateboarding keeps to 45 words of 3 to 5 letters, such as Deck, Nose, Tail, Curb and Ollie. Hard Skateboarding has 18 long ones, Polyurethane, Boardslide and Transition among them.

Tick Show clues, not words in More options: "To skate in a long arc that curves." then stands for Carve.
Hyphens and spaces are dropped in the grid: look for HALFPIPE, SHOVEIT, GRIPTAPE and TICTAC.

Questions and answers

What are the parts of a skateboard called?

The deck is the board itself, with a nose at the front and a tail at the back. Two metal trucks hold the four wheels, each wheel turns on two bearings, and grip tape on top keeps the feet from slipping.

What is an ollie?

An ollie is a jump with the board. The rider snaps the tail down with the back foot and slides the front foot forward, so that the front wheels lift first. Most flip tricks, the kickflip among them, start from it.

What is the difference between goofy and regular?

It is which foot leads. A regular rider stands with the left foot in front, and a goofy rider leads with the right. Riding the other way round from usual is called switch.

What is the difference between a grind and a slide?

In a grind the metal trucks run along the edge. In a slide it is the board itself. Both are done on ledges, rails and the coping of a ramp.

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The Board 29

The Board, continued

The Skatepark 28

Ollies, Flips and Airs 23

Grinds, Slides and Ground Moves 21

Riders, Styles and History 30

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Five lists, from the deck to the half-pipe

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