Abstract: A skateboard particularly adapted for making small radius, sharply banked turns. The skateboard body is provided with an upturned curvilinear transverse cross section with the lowest point in the transverse cross section being disposed at approximately the longitudinal centerline of the skateboard body. The highest points of the transverse cross section are disposed at approximately the outboard edge of the skateboard body. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the curvilinear transverse cross section is symmetric along the longitudinal centerline of the skateboard body and extends longitudinally along part of, or the entire length of the skateboard body. In alternate embodiments of the invention, the skateboard body may be provided with a curvilinear transverse cross section approximated by a plurality of linear cross section segments.