Some sports or activities have traditionally been (1) _______ with people, even though it is not always clear why. Skateboarders, for instance, are expected to (2) _______ teenagers wearing clothes four sizes too big for them. When you come to think of it, there’s (3) _______ practical reason why people over the age of 21 shouldn’t take up the sport. Skateboarding involves a certain (4) _______ of falling off the board, (4) _______ can of course be painful, but this also (6) _______ to other sports like skiing or surfing. Sports should not be restricted to teenagers. There is (7) _______ wrong with a grown - up gliding down the road on his or her board. At the same time, I must confess that I (8) _______ a certain sympathy for my niece Emily when her father, my older brother Tom, announced that he was going skateboarding with her. At the age of 14 you are very conscious of what other people think of you. She knew all her friends would laugh at her if she arrived for the regular Saturday morning skateboarding sessions in the local park with her dad. Emily felt (9) _______ embarrassment would be more than she could bear, so she kindly asked her father if he could go skateboarding somewhere else. Tom realized how embarrassed Emily must felt and (10) _______ out laughing.