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

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

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

     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.