Company: SKLZ
Filing Date: 2025-12-11
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001801661-25-000073
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Company: Skillz Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-11
Form: S-8
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<div align='center'>As filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on December 11, 2025.</div>

#### Registration No. 333-

### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### Washington, D.C. 20549

#### FORM S-8

### REGISTRATION STATEMENT

#### UNDER

#### THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

#### SKILLZ INC.
<div align='center'>(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)</div>

| Delaware                                                       |     | 84-4478274                          |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) |     | -I.R.S. Employer Identification No. |

#### 6625 Badura Avenue

#### Las Vegas, Nevada 89118
<div align='center'>(415) 762-0511

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)</div>

#### Skillz Inc. 2020 Omnibus Incentive Plan

#### Skillz Inc. 2020 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
<div align='center'>(Full title of the plan)</div>

#### Andrew Paradise

#### Chief Executive Officer

#### 6625 Badura Avenue

#### Las Vegas, Nevada 89118
<div align='center'>(415) 762-0511

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

Copies to:</div>

#### Keith M. Townsend

#### Allison C. Bell

#### King & Spalding LLP

#### 1180 Peachtree Street, N.E.

#### Atlanta, Georgia 30309

#### Tel: (404) 572-4600
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:

| Large accelerated filer |     | ¨ |     | Accelerated filer         | ¨ |
| Non-accelerated filer   |     | x |     | Smaller reporting company | x |
|                         |     |   |     | Emerging growth company   | ¨ |

If an emerging growth