(1) Anybody can go in and say: ‘Can you imagine a duck on a skateboard?’ Honestly, I prefer real.
(2) Douglas McCabe, a media analyst at Enders Analysis, said traditional media companies that initially dismissed BuzzFeed as just "cats on skateboards" were already concerned about its ability to generate huge amounts of traffic and move in on the serious news agenda.
(3) Users can add whatever detail interests them such as cycle routes , skateboarding areas, cycle parks, paths through parks – the parts Google can't reach.
(4) However, in parkland and around the home the skateboard is an enjoyable toy with an acceptable risk of minor injury.
(5) With the eight lanes of France’s most famous avenue cleared of all traffic on Paris’s first car-free day , the usual cacophony of car-revving and thundering motorbike engines had given way to the squeak of bicycle wheels, the clatter of skateboards, the laughter of children on rollerblades and even the gentle rustling of wind in the trees.
(6) Employment of protective equipment was commonest among persons who were members of a club and among those injured on skateboard ramps.
(7) Skateboarding cast a deep influence on Jonze's teenage aesthetics, but so did DIY punk rock and old school hip-hop.
(8) Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian "A lot of defensible architecture is added on to the street environment at a later stage, but equally with a lot of new developments it's apparent that questions of 'who do we want in this space, who do we not want' are being considered very early in the design stage," says the photographer Marc Vallée, who has documented anti-skateboarding architecture .
(9) Thirty fractures resulting from skateboarding have been treated in the past six months at the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit.
(10) Effective prevention of facial injuries may be possible by evolving better facial protection systems and by creating areas of playgrounds where skateboarders can practise safely.
(11) The micro-scooter Utterly killed off by the skateboard, making a triumphant return to our streets.
(12) Karen once looked out of the window and saw him in the street, tied to a skateboard attached to his sister's bike, ready for some daredevil trick.
(13) (It is also a state in which skateboarding is a legal form of transport on roads.)
(14) Over a 30-month period there were 80 admissions (69 children) to Westmead Hospital because of skateboard injuries.
(15) I'd just discovered hair gel (the really cheap stuff you got in a pot with a screw top lid), I had my hair totally slicked back, and I would skateboard up and down the culdesac.
(16) Following the introduction of skateboards into Germany in 1976 an increasing number of accidents and injuries have been noted, affecting mainly children 10 to 14 years of age.
(17) A spokesperson added “We pride ourselves on ensuring the Royal Parks are open to everyone.” The self-balancing scooters are just the latest in a long series of low-powered electronic transportation gadgets to hit the market, following “monopods” (self-balancing unicycles), electric skateboards, and Segways themselves.
(18) Weepu, having missed the conversion and hit a post with his first penalty attempt, located the target and Cruden, a skateboarding youth from Palmerston North, slid over a sweet drop goal to make the score 11-3.
(19) His stage show represents the sights and sounds of a generation for whom global networking is like breathing, and Moore is living the teenage dreams of that generation – skateboards, aliens, cracked contradictions and all.
(20) During recent years, an increasing number of skateboard accidents have been registered in Odense Hospital.
Skater
Definition:
(n.) One who skates.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects belonging to Gerris, Pyrrhocoris, Prostemma, and allied genera. They have long legs, and run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating.
Example Sentences:
(1) The morphometrical data of the skaters muscle fiber are compared with the muscle parameters (according to the literature data) of the m. vastus lateralis in high qualification sportsmen of other specialization and in nontrained persons.
(2) Others may argue, as former US Olympic skater Johnny Weir has, that what they define as “politics” shouldn’t enter into the equation of whether a country is fit to host the Games.
(3) In skater-statyers sarcoplasm of muscle fibers sharply increases in volume.
(4) For those analytics lovers, there’s the evidence via Extra Skater that the Kings Fenwick score (shot attempts) was better throughout the entirety of the game, perhaps suggesting that the true abnormality of Saturday night’s game was that the Rangers led for so much of it.
(5) Using aerobic and anaerobic power production as measured during supra maximal bicycle tests of international-level speed skaters, a model of the kinetics of power production is obtained.
(6) Sometimes, loading for endurance in skater-stayers produces rather essential disturbances in structure of muscle fibers up to their necrosis.
(7) A Russian speed skater revealed he had failed a drugs test for meldonium on the day the country’s sports officials warned more athletes could test positive for the drug responsible for Maria Sharapova failing a test at the Australian Open .
(8) Female senior pair skaters reported an average of 1.4 serious injuries, and other groups averaged greater than 0.5 serious injury per skater.
(9) The 23-year-old from Livingston was one of a five-strong squad of short-track skaters confirmed for the Games , along with Charlotte Gilmartin, Jon Eley, Richard Shoebridge and Jack Whelbourne.
(10) This power is necessary to overcome the air and ice friction and to increase the kinetic energy of the skater.
(11) Of the nine injured skaters, eight were treated conservatively and one skater with Jones' fracture was treated surgically.
(12) An analysis of the start of the 500 m speed skating races during the 1988 Olympic Winter Games showed a remarkably high correlation between the acceleration of the skater in the first second of the sprint and the final time (r = -0.75).
(13) This information may be useful for designing strength training programs for figure skaters.
(14) It is a more thoughtful book, but it also prefigures Clark's seeming obsession with the wayward lives of teenagers, which has since become the central theme of his films, most controversially Kids, and later books like 2008's Los Angeles Vol 1 , in which he trails a bunch of skater kids from Compton, east Los Angeles.
(15) Compared with previous published data, skaters in this study were younger and smaller with a higher percent body fat.
(16) Muscle fibers composition was investigated in vastus lateralis muscles of 103 skaters.
(17) This initial effort to evaluate the efficacy of this type of a training program for competitive figure skating seems to have proven to be beneficial to the skaters.
(18) Over the course of the 3-month period, the skaters in the program showed an average increase in oxygen consumption of 9% from 44.73 cc per kg per min to 55.51 cc per kg per min.
(19) In previous outings, conversation prints and skater skirt shapes could have been seen as cutesy, but this season's dresses had no-brainier ease that also came with a Beckham-branded complexity and sophistication.
(20) On alternate days, the skaters used the same amount of time in a strength training program.