You don't really kick these scooters! What you kick is the stand that the scooter can lean on when not in use. You can find little, plastic kick scooters for very little kids, often with their favorite book or movie character on it.

However, the most common scooters for kids have two hard, small wheels, are made of aluminum, and often fold up.

Scooters made for adults usually have more durable parts, have a wider and longer floor board (deck), provide a hand brake, and come with larger wheels.

Kick scooters have been around for at least 100 years. Homemade versions were made by attaching roller skates to a wooden board of some kind and then attaching a handle.

In the late 1990s, Razor came out with scooter that became popular in Japan and the US.

Young adults started performing stunts and newer, sturdier types of scooters were developed by Razor and Micro.

Racing scooters with bicycle wheels became popular in crowded cities for transportation and off-road for fun.