THE WORLD IS ROLLING SOMEWHERE RIGHT NOW

Every skate crew
on earth. One map.

Night skates, clubs, crews, rinks and rolls in 0 countries. Your crew probably already exists on WhatsApp and Instagram. Nobody outside your city can find it. Now they can.

0COMMUNITIES
0COUNTRIES
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WHERE DO I SKATE TONIGHT?

What this actually is

Not a social network. Not a forum. Not a replacement for your group chat.

01 / THE MAP

Find skating anywhere

Zoom into any city on earth and see who rolls there, when they meet, and every link they have. Filter by night skates, clubs, rinks, or discipline.

02 / THE INDEX

Your crew, findable

A crew of 40 people in Medellin with nothing but a WhatsApp group is invisible to a skater flying in. One pin fixes that. You keep doing exactly what you already do.

03 / THE FEED

What is happening now

Skate news, video, marathons and events pulled from across the whole scene, in one place, in your language.

The scene, by the numbers

Every entry came from real research. Nothing here is invented.

DENSEST COUNTRIES

BIGGEST CITY SCENES

IS YOUR CREW MISSING?

Put your crew on the map in 60 seconds

No account. No password. You fill a short form, we check it is real, and you get a private link you keep forever to update it.

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WHAT IS IT

DISCIPLINE

LIVE

CONFIDENCE

FRESHNESS

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ROLLING TODAY

THE DIRECTORY

FEATURED CITY

SKATECHICAGO

The lakefront, the rinks, and the crews. Chicago has one of the deepest skate cultures in the world and almost none of it is written down in one place. This is the attempt.

WHENCREWSRINKS CHICAGO STYLEMAPDERBY & HOCKEY EVENTSGONE

Who rolls when

Everything on file with a known day. Chicago street skating is seasonal: the outdoor rides run roughly May to October, and the rinks carry the winter.

The crews

Most of these organise on Instagram. If you are new, message before you show up and say you are new. It works.

The rinks

Indoor, year round, and the backbone of skating here. Adult nights are where the real skating happens.

Chicago style

You cannot write about skating in this city without JB. Chicago style, or "JB skating", is a Black social dance form on quad skates built around James Brown records, with its own footwork, its own etiquette and decades of history in this city's rinks. Rainbo Roller Rink was its home until it closed. If you are visiting, go, watch first, and ask before you join a line.

The map

Everything above, plotted. Click a pin for the full entry.

Derby, hockey and speed

The organised side of the sport.

Events worth planning around

Gone, but people still ask

Listing dead venues as if they were alive is how every other skate directory lost people's trust. So these stay visible, marked.

  • Rainbo Roller Rink closed in 2003 and the building is gone. It was the home of Chicago style skating and still comes up in every conversation about the scene.
  • Orbit Skate Center (Palatine) closed. Rich City Skate closed. Axle Skate Park closed.
  • The Chicago Outfit Roller Derby and the Chicagoland Inline Marathon both appear to have wound down.
  • teamrainbo.com now redirects somewhere unrelated. Do not follow old links to it.

Wrong about any of these? That is exactly the kind of correction worth sending.

SOMETHING MISSING? ADD IT →
TRIP MODE

Skating somewhere else?

Tell us where and when. We will show you exactly who rolls on which day you are there, and write your introduction in their language.

ASK THE MAP

Ask anything about skating anywhere

A concierge that has read the whole map. Ask in any language, get an answer in the same one.

MOCKUP. The real one runs the same rig as the BAR bot on skatenyc: a Claude Code instance on the production box, given the dataset and told to answer in the asker's language. Answers below are canned.
CLAIM YOUR CREW

Put your crew on the map

No account. No password. Never any spam. You get one private link and you keep it forever.

1

You fill this form

Name, city, when you meet, and wherever your people already talk. Two minutes.

2

AI screens it

Checks it is a real skate community, not spam, and not already on the map under another name.

3

A human approves

Someone actually looks at it before it goes live. Usually same day.

4

You get an edit link

A private URL. Bookmark it. That is how you update your crew forever. No login screen, ever.

Plain words are fine. This is what powers the "rolling today" map.
WhatsApp invite links are welcome. Most crews outside the US live there and that is fine.

We never post as you, never sell anything, and never email you except to ask once every six months if you are still rolling.

THE FEED

Everything happening in skating, from everywhere, in one place.

MOCKUP CONTENT. The real feed pulls from 45 YouTube channels, 42 subreddits, verified skate-media RSS, and federation event calendars. All of those sources are already identified and documented in DATA-SOURCES.md. Nothing below is live.

WHAT THIS IS

An index and a map on top of skating as it already exists. Built by skaters, for the ones who travel.