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Skate punk
Skate punk, also called skatepunk, is a fast, melodic punk rock subgenre from 1980s Southern California tied to skateboarding culture, defined by 180–220 BPM tempos, downstroked guitars, indie labels like Epitaph and Fat Wreck Chords, and a 1990s breakout.
Skateboard
Skateboard: a wooden deck on two trucks and four wheels, originating in California from roller-skate wheels on boards; the basis of skateboarding, an Olympic sport since Tokyo 2020 with street and park events governed by World Skate.
Skateboarding
Skateboarding, or sidewalk surfing, is an action sport and transport mode on a wheeled board, born in mid-20th century California; key facts include urethane wheels, the ollie, X Games, and its Tokyo 2020 Olympic debut.
Skateboarding trick
Skateboarding trick: a maneuver flipping, spinning, or launching a skateboard, built on the ollie (Alan Gelfand, 1978) and kicktail; classified by stance, rotation, and flip, judged on difficulty, execution, variety, flow.
Skatepark
Skatepark: purpose-built facility with ramps, bowls, and obstacles for skateboarding, BMX, and scootering; over 3,000 public skateparks in the US, with design, safety, and community-use research.
Skathi (moon)
Skathi (Saturn XXVII, formerly spelled Skadi) is a small irregular moon of Saturn about 8 kilometers across, discovered on September 23, 2000, and named for the Norse giantess Skadi.
Skaz
Skaz (Russian: сказ, from skazat, "to tell") is a Russian literary device imitating the oral speech of a simple narrator, used by Gogol, Leskov, and Zoshchenko.
Skazanie of Avraamy Palitsyn
The Skazanie of Avraamy Palitsyn (Сказание Авраамия Палицына) is a Russian account of the Time of Troubles by the monk Avraamy Palitsyn, completed in 1620.
Skazka
Skazka (Yalta Zoo Skazka, Ялтинский зоопарк «Сказка») is a private zoo in Yalta, Crimea, founded 1995 by Oleg Zubkov; first private zoo in the CIS, largest in Crimea, with about 123 species on 2.5 ha and the Taigan lion safari as its branch.
Skazka Playground
Skazka Playground (Дитяче містечко «Казка») is a 2.5-hectare children's amusement park in central Mykolaiv, Ukraine, opened 19 May 1982, known for its Buian ship replica, wooden fortress, stone castle, and Lukomoria carousel.
SKB-571
SKB-571 (MK-2750) is a bispecific antibody-drug conjugate targeting EGFR and c-MET, developed by Sichuan Kelun-Biotech with Merck/MSD for solid tumors; Merck exercised its option in 2024 for $37.5 million upfront, and it is in Phase 1/2 trials in China.
SKB264-adjacent Kelun preclinical ADCs (none)
Seven preclinical antibody-drug conjugate candidates from Kelun-Biotech (科伦博泰), none of them SKB264 itself, licensed exclusively to Merck/MSD in December 2022 for a $175 million upfront and up to $9.3 billion in milestones.
SKB315 (Claudin 18.2 ADC)
SKB315 (MK-1200) is a CLDN18.2-targeting antibody-drug conjugate by Sichuan Kelun-Biotech, licensed globally to MSD in June 2022 for $35 million upfront plus up to $901 million milestones; phase 1 data show 37.5% ORR in gastric cancer.
SKB378 / HBM9378, anti-TSLP monoclonal antibody
HBM9378 (SKB378, WIN378) is a fully human IgG1 anti-TSLP monoclonal antibody co-developed by Harbour BioMed and Kelun-Biotech, with a 55–66 day half-life enabling twice-yearly dosing, now in Phase 2/3 asthma and COPD trials.
SKC (company)
SKC Co., Ltd. is a South Korean SK Group materials company founded in 1976, now focused on battery copper foil, silicon anodes, semiconductor materials, and glass substrates.
Skcript
Skcript is a self-funded software company based in Chennai, India, founded by Karthik Kamalakannan and Swaathi Kakarla, that builds enterprise AI applications and sells software as a service.
Skechers
Skechers U.S.A., Inc. is an American footwear company founded by Robert Greenberg in Manhattan Beach, California, in 1992, first selling logger boots. Known for comfort technology lines such as Slip-ins and Arch Fit, it reached $9 billion in 2024 revenue and was taken private by 3G Capital in September 2025.
Skedsmo
Skedsmo was a municipality in Akershus, Norway, northeast of Oslo with center Lillestrøm; formed 1962 by merging Skedsmo and Lillestrøm, dissolved 1 January 2020 into Lillestrøm municipality with Fet and Sørum; 55,652 inhabitants in 2019.
Skee-Ball
Skee-Ball, the classic alley-roller arcade game, invented by Joseph Fourestier Simpson of Vineland, New Jersey; U.S. Patent 905,941 granted December 8, 1908. Players roll nine balls up a ramp into scoring rings; now owned by Bay Tek Entertainment, made in Pulaski, Wisconsin.
Skee-Lo
Skee-Lo (Antoine Roundtree, born 1975, Chicago) is an American rapper whose 1995 single "I Wish" hit number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100, went gold, and earned Grammy nominations before a label dispute ended his career.
Skeena
Skeena (Skeena River, Tsimshian K'shian), British Columbia's second-largest river, flows about 580 km from northwestern BC to Chatham Sound near Prince Rupert; a major salmon and steelhead watershed with 66 salmon Conservation Units.
Skeet shooting
Skeet shooting is a shotgun sport in which shooters at stations around a semicircular field fire at clay targets crossing from a high and a low trap house.
Skeet Ulrich
Skeet Ulrich (Bryan Ray Trout, born 1970) is an American actor known as Billy Loomis in Scream (1996), Jake Green in Jericho, and FP Jones on Riverdale; recently Henry Emily in Five Nights at Freddy's 2.
Skeeter Davis
Skeeter Davis (Mary Frances Penick, 1931-2004), American country singer of the Davis Sisters duo, famous for the crossover hit "The End of the World" and a Grand Ole Opry member 1959-2004.
Skeeter syndrome
Skeeter syndrome, also called a large local mosquito bite reaction, is an IgE- and IgG-mediated allergic reaction to mosquito saliva causing large red, swollen, itchy lesions within hours, mimicking cellulitis, most common in young atopic children, resolving in 3-10 days.
Skegness
Skegness is a Lincolnshire seaside resort on the North Sea coast, developed as a planned Victorian resort by the ninth Earl of Scarbrough after the 1873 railway, later home to Butlin's amusements.
Skeid fotball
Skeid fotball, Oslo football department of Skeid (founded 1915, merged 1925), eight Norwegian Cups, one league title, home at Nordre Åsen since 2013, playing 2. divisjon in 2026.
Skein (hash function)
Skein is a family of cryptographic hash functions built on the Threefish block cipher; it was a SHA-3 finalist, but NIST chose Keccak in 2012.
Skein module theory
Skein module theory studies skein modules, algebraic objects assigned to 3-manifolds by taking links modulo local skein relations; it was introduced independently by Przytycki and Turaev around 1987.
Skein relation
A skein relation is a linear relation among link diagrams identical except at one crossing site, which defines and computes polynomial invariants of knots and links.