The largest skateboard parade was achieved by 498 participants at an event organised by the Venice High School Alumni Association Centennial Celebration Committee (USA) in Los Angeles, California, USA, on 26 June 2011.

The largest skinny dipping event involved 13,674 Participants, organised by AANR (USA) across multiple locations in the USA, on 11 July 2008. 103 club resorts took part in the record atttempt.

On 27 July 2002, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, Slumberjack unveiled the world’s largest sleeping bag measuring 24.5 ft (7.46m) wide and 54.16 ft (16.5m) long, and weighing 175lb (79kg)  The sleeping bag is to scale and is nearly ten times larger than a normal sleeping bag. Manufactured at the Slumberjack plant in Glasgow, Missouri it was created in honour of Slumberjack’s 50th anniversary. 

The largest snowball measures 10.04 m (32.94 ft) in circumference and was rolled by students from ASME Michigan Technological University (USA), in Houghton, Michigan, USA, on 29 March 2013. The diameter of the snowball measures 3.20 m (10.45 ft) and its height reaches 3.28 m (9.28 ft).

The largest snow cone weighs 11.38 tons (25,080 lbs) and was created by Bahama Buck’s Original Shaved Ice Company (USA) in Lubbock, Texas, USA, on 10 December 2011. The flavour of the snow cone was “Birthday Cake”.

The largest slot machine tournament involved 3,001 participants at an event organized by Bally Technologies, Inc. at Mohegan Sun in Montville, Connecticut, USA on 27 April 2013.

The record for the world’s largest soda float was one of 13,638 litres (3,000 gal) made by Coca-Cola at the World of Coca-Cola Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, on 25 May 2007. The float comprised 12,956 litres (2,850 gal) of Vanilla Coke and 7,200 scoops of ice cream, which was pumped into a 15 ft tall glass.

The largest sock measures 9.93 m (32 ft 7 in) x 6.86 m (22 ft 6 in) x 2.49 m (8 ft 2 in) and was created by Project Undercover, Inc. (USA). It was unveiled at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, on 2 December 2011. The cream and brown color sock was designed to resemble a ‘sock monkey’ puppet, and consisted of nearly 183 metres of cotton material as well as required nearly 12,802 metres of cotton thread to create. Continue reading →

The largest snowball fight was achieved by 5,834 participants at an event organized by Seattle Snow Day (USA) at Seattle Center, Washington, USA, on 12 January 2013. Each participant threw at least one snowball during the attempt, with proceeds benefiting the Boys and Girls Clubs of Seattle.

The largest solar telescope is the McMath-Pierce solar telescope which opened in 1962 atop Kitt Peak in Arizona, USA. Light from the sun is collected via a 152 m long (498 ft) slanted shaft,, which directs sunlight on to a 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) mirror, 50 m (164 ft) below ground. It forms an 85 cm (33 in) wide high-resolution image of the sun.