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skateability

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English

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Etymology

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From skate +‎ -ability.

Noun

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skateability (uncountable)

  1. The property of being suitable for skating or skateboarding.
    • 1959, Recreation, page 29:
      Smoothness and skateability of your ice depend on the way it is prepared.
    • 2006, Kas Oosterhuis, Lukas Feireiss, editors, The Architecture Co-laboratory: Game Set and Match II: On Computer Games, Advanced Geometries, and Digital Technologies, Episode Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, page 147:
      MUA has designed several skate-boarding facilities, and in all designs the main aim is to achieve perfect skateability.
    • 2013 June 7, Jude Kelly, “Southbank skateboarders must see the big picture”, in Evening Standard:
      And yet within the last decade, the Southbank Centre got planning permission on behalf of the skateboarders to improve the skateability of the existing space.