People [1] occasionally use In-line skates, skateboards or other similar devices to tour around cities such as London and Paris.
The term suicide skate evolved to describe events where a group of around 5-30 people use In-line skates to tour around a city without informing the police or other local authorities and without using marshals to help control the traffic.
In the case of relatively inexperienced skaters, simply skating on roads without the help of marshals to control traffic could be a significant step outside their personal comfort zone.
However, participants would not, running the gauntlet with taxis and buses is all considered part of the fun.
However, in other cases,[3] the leading group of skaters would be happy to occasionally stop and wait for slower participants to catch up, thus ensuring that nobody was left behind.