skateability

skateability

English

Etymology

skate +‎ -ability

Noun

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, The Architecture Co-laboratory: Game Set and Match II: On Computer Games, Advanced Geometries, and Digital Technologies (eds. Kas Oosterhuis & Lukas Feireiss), Episode Publishing (2005), →ISBN, page 147:

     MUA has designed several skate-boarding facilities, and in all designs the main aim is to achieve perfect skateability.

   • 2013, Jude Kelly, "Southbank skateboarders must see the big picture", Evening Standard, 7 June 2013:

     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.