grip tape
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The padded seat is adjustable, and the bamboo deck includes grip tape to keep your feet in place.
From The Verge • Sep. 8, 2022
Mr. Gaites was installing grip tape, the sandpapery strip of paper on top of boards that provides foot traction, on a longboard when Mr. Van Amburg took his choices to the counter.
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2018
"It was one of these old 1970s boards with no grip tape," he says.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2016
After Jackson was diagnosed with diabetes at age 6, his father came home with a skateboard from Wal-Mart, with black grip tape and an emerald-green underside.
From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2015
The deputy told me to empty my pockets: two quarters, a penny, a stick of bubble gum, and a roll of grip tape for my skateboard.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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