fakie (plural fakies)
(skateboarding, snowboarding) The riding backwards of the board, in the opposite stance.
The act of riding a BMX bicycle backwards and pedalling with the sprocket movement while moving backwards, then turning the bars away from the desired direction and sliding out so as to ride forwards again.
fakie
(of a trick) Performed using the fakie stance.
fakie (third-person singular simple present fakies, present participle fakieing, simple past and past participle fakied)
To ride using a fakie stance.
Source: Wiktionary
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
