You could say Exposure Skate was born out of necessity, as it evolved during a time when opportunities for women and girls in ...

As skateboarding becomes an Olympic event, “Drop In” chronicles the women, nonbinary, and queer skaters who have made the sport more equitable. History, it is said, is written by the victors. And so ...

Toss on the Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtrack because skateboarding has hit the Olympics. The Tokyo games marks the first time skateboarding is an Olympic sport and it’s already making a major splash.

In 2022, we published a photo story about an unusual group of skateboarders. The young Bolivian women who founded Imilla Skate do their heel flips and backslides in polleras — colorful, layered skirts ...

Skateboarding has been a male-dominated sport for decades, but in recent years, with skating surging ahead on social media, women are now making big leaps on wheels. To celebrate this cultural shift, ...

On nothing but a “plank of wood and four wheels,” a group of women are careering down windy mountain roads at breakneck speed, constantly on the lookout for stones, turns and oncoming traffic. For ...

TOKYOTOKYO — Women’s park skateboarding made its Olympics debut at the Ariake Urban Sports Park, and before the first-ever competition had ended we already had a peek into the sport’s future. After ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michelle Bruton covers action sports and the Olympics and Paralympics. When skateboarding was officially approved as a new sport ...