skateboarder
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“I told her, ‘If you don’t start saying it, it’s not going to happen,’” says Snyder, 49, who pursued his own dream of becoming a professional skateboarder before moving into video editing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
“That’s Mecca,” said Ted Barrow, a skateboarder and architectural preservationist who has defended the fountain at public hearings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
London 2012 Olympic champion Adams, world champion sprinter Asher-Smith and skateboarder Sky Brown are among the Britons who have also been commemorated.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025
The winner, chosen from a shortlist of 11 photographers, was Daniel Dian-Ji Wu, Taiwan, 16 years old, for his image of a skateboarder doing a trick, silhouetted against a sunset in Venice Beach, Los Angeles.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2025
It’s filled with jars and specialty items instead of pill bottles, sitting under his shrine to his favorite skateboarder, Paul Rodriguez, and the entire Colombian national soccer team.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
In Greenfield, Wisc., skateboarders literally unearthed a classic 1970s skate park called the Turf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
The Venice Beach-based organization fosters community among female skateboarders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
To boost interest in Circle Jerks, Trust recruited famous skateboarders to shred through Los Angeles in a new video for the 1982 song “Wild in the Streets,” which was released on YouTube in 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
For five years it hosted the country's finest and keenest skateboarders, witnessing flips and tricks as a new subculture boomed in popularity.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025
Looking through the windows, they saw the girls they’d fought with, and the skateboarders from the park.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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