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A kick scooter or push scooter, originally scooter, is a human-powered vehicle with a handlebar, deck and wheels that is propelled by a rider pushing off the ground. The most common scooters today have two hard small wheels, are made primarily of aluminium and fold for convenience. Some kick scooters that are made for younger children have 3 or 4 wheels and are made of plastic or do not fold. High performance racing scooters made for adults resemble the old penny-farthing with much larger wheel in front.

Before bicycles became popular among children, Two-wheeled scooters with bicycle wheels had been the most useful vehicles for them. Those are still developed today; Some are used in dense urban areas for utility purposes, being faster than a folding scooter and more convenient than a utility bicycle. Some are made for off-road use and are described as Mountain Scooters, such as Sidewalker, Freetrail and Diggler. Besides commuting, sports competition and off-road use, large wheel scooters are a favorite for Dog scootering where single or team dogs such as huskies pull a scooter and rider in the same way that a sled is pulled across snow. Today variations on the kicksled with scooter design features are also available, such as the Kickspark.

In the late 1990s, the Micro Skate Scooter , a sleeker, narrower folding version of the kick scooter, was created by Wim Ouboter of Micro Mobility Systems[3] in Switzerland.[4] The scooter was rebadged as the Razor in the USA.[5] JD Corporation, the founder of Razor USA[6] also sold them as the JD Bug/Razor MS-130A .[7] In 1999 and 2000 the aluminum scooters and their copies became popular in Japan and the United States, in a wide variety of colors and styles. The three brands are still produced and are popular with children and with a niche market of young adults who use the scooters to perform stunts. See Scootering.

In 1999, Micro Mobility Systems and K2 produced a reverse-three-wheeled scooter as Kickboard . Micro also produced the Kickboard-like-children's scooters as Mini Micro and Maxi Micro . The reverse design inherently provides greater stability than the standard: a standing person will tend to stand at the front of a scooter rather than at the back. However, the steering geometry is inherently weak & requires innovative solutions to provide a decent response. An example is the MiniMicro, which uses a spring loaded system to translate lateral force on the handbars (child leaning) into turning motion on the wheels, referred by the makers as 'lean and steer'.