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Ska

Ska, or ska music, is a Jamaican popular music genre that emerged around 1960, defined by its offbeat accent, walking bass, and horns; it slowed into rocksteady and then reggae.

SKA Arena (СКА Арена) is a 21,500-seat ice hockey arena in St. Petersburg, opened November 2023 on the former SKK Peterburgsky site; home of HC SKA and Shanghai Dragons, world's largest hockey arena by capacity.

Ska punk

Ska punk, also called ska-punk, fuses Jamaican ska's offbeat rhythms and horns with punk rock's speed and aggression. Rooted in 1979's 2 Tone movement, it peaked commercially in the 1990s third wave with Operation Ivy, Rancid, Reel Big Fish, and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

Ska-P

Ska-P is a Spanish ska-punk band formed in 1994 in Madrid. The group is known for its anti-establishment lyrics and has sold over 1.6 million records.

Skaar (character)

Skaar (character): Marvel Comics son of the Hulk and Caiera the Oldstrong, created by Greg Pak and John Romita Jr., debuting in World War Hulk #5 (2008). Wields gamma powers and Sakaar's Old Power; adapted in Agents of S.M.A.S.H. and She-Hulk (2022, Wil Deusner).

Skadar

Lake Skadar (Shkodra, Skadarsko jezero) is the largest lake in the Balkans, on the Montenegro-Albania border: shallow karst cryptodepression, 44 km long, Morača-fed, national park since 1983, Ramsar site, declining water levels.

Skadar Lake Watershed Biosphere Reserve

The Skadar Lake Watershed Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve designated in June 2026, Montenegro's first, covering the watershed of Lake Skadar on the Montenegro-Albania border.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is a New York-founded (1948) multinational law firm with 21 offices and about 1,700 lawyers, ranked Vault #3 and Am Law #5, known for M&A, litigation, and its 2025 White House agreement.

Skaði

Skaði (Skade, Skadi), a jötunn woman counted among the Norse goddesses, daughter of Þjazi; ski-goddess and archer who marries Njörðr, avenges her father, and fastens the serpent over bound Loki.

Oct 15, 2026

Skaergaard intrusion

The Skaergaard intrusion is a layered gabbro body on the coast of East Greenland, formed about 55 million years ago and a type example of closed-system differentiation, discovered by Lawrence Wager in 1931.

Skagerrak

Skagerrak: deep arm of the North Sea between Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, bounded by Hanstholm–Lindesnes and Skagen–Pater Noster; about 32,000 km², up to 700 m deep in the Norwegian Trench, with cyclonic circulation and Baltic outflow.

Skagit River Hydroelectric Project

The Skagit River Hydroelectric Project is a system of three dams, Gorge, Diablo, and Ross, on the upper Skagit River in Washington, owned by Seattle City Light.

Skagway repeater stations of the Yukon and Alaska telegraph trail

The Skagway repeater stations were the coastal-end telegraph stations of the Alaska–Yukon telegraph trail, relaying messages from the port of Skagway over White Pass toward Bennett, Whitehorse, and Dawson City.

Skagway, Alaska

Skagway, Alaska: first-class borough at the head of Taiya Inlet, founded in the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush, Alaska's first incorporated city (1900). About 800–1,100 residents host 1.3 million cruise passengers a year on the White Pass & Yukon Route railway.

Skai Isyourgod (陈序垲)

Skai Isyourgod (揽佬), real name Chen Xukai (陈序垲), born 1998 in Huizhou, Guangdong, is a Chinese Memphis-rap artist rapping in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Hakka; his 2024 album Stacks from All Sides went viral globally and made him Spotify's most-streamed Chinese-language artist in 2025.

Skai Jackson

Skai Jackson (born 2002, New York City) is an American actress and author, known as Zuri Ross on Disney Channel's Jessie (2011–2015) and Bunk'd (2015–2018), a Time Most Influential Teen of 2016, memoirist of Reach for the Skai, and later a BMF cast member and livestreamer.

Skak

Skak is the Icelandic word for chess, a game long rooted in Iceland. Norse called it skáktafl; Fiske traced it from England via terms hrókur and biskup; Reykjavik hosted the 1972 Fischer–Spassky match.

Oct 20, 2026

Skakaonica

Skakaonica, Belgrade trampoline and adventure park operator, originally a raft-based jumping arena on the Sava; venues at Ava Shopping Park (4,800 m2, Serbia's largest indoor adventure park) and Dorćol.

Skal Labissière

Skal Labissière, Haitian forward-center (born 1996, Port-au-Prince), Kentucky one-and-done, 28th pick of the 2016 NBA Draft; 152 NBA games with Sacramento and Portland, now a Capital City Go-Go G League standout and 2026 Wizards 10-day signee.

Oct 15, 2026

Skaland

Skaland is a Norwegian flake graphite mining company, Skaland Graphite AS, based on Senja in Troms, northern Norway, described as Europe's leading producer of crystalline flake graphite.

Skald

A skald (Old Norse skáld) was a court poet of medieval Scandinavia who composed formalized skaldic verse in Old Norse, praising rulers and commemorating battles from the ninth century onward.

Oct 22, 2026

Skaldic poetry

Skaldic poetry is the technically complex verse of the Old Norse court poets, composed chiefly in the court meter dróttkvætt and attributed to named poets.

Skálholt

Skálholt (Skálholtsstaður), southern Iceland: first episcopal see from 1056 under Ísleifur Gissurarson and national center for about 750 years; site of Jón Arason's 1550 execution and the tenth church there, the 1963 cathedral.

Skalistyy Golets

Skalistyy Golets (Гора Скалистый Голец) is the name of two mountains in eastern Russia, including the 2,519 m highest point of the Kalar Range in Zabaykalsky Krai.

Skam (TV series)

Skam, Norwegian teen drama by NRK P3 (2015–2017), created by Julie Andem; real-time clip drops, fictional social media, four seasons at Hartvig Nissen School, Oslo; eight international remakes.

Skam España

Skam España (Skam Spain) is the Spanish adaptation of the Norwegian teen series Skam, produced by Movistar+ and Zeppelin TV, four seasons and 39 episodes from 2018 to 2020, told in real time through clips, Instagram profiles, and weekly episodes set in Madrid.

Skam France

Skam France is the French adaptation of the Norwegian teen drama Skam, streamed on france.tv slash from 2018 to 2023 in 12 seasons, the first foreign Skam remake.

Skam Italia

Skam Italia is the Italian teen drama remake of Norway's NRK series SKAM, produced by Cross Productions with TIMvision and Netflix, 2018–2024, six seasons, 62 episodes, created by Ludovico Bessegato, set in a Rome liceo, with original seasons 5 and 6 beyond the Norwegian format.