You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.
Understand that legal and illegal are political and often arbitrary categorizations use and abuse are medical or clinical distinctions.
I consider skateboarding an art form a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.
Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.