🚤 A fast boat 🚗 To slide on water ✈️ A water aircraft 💦 To skim water

to hydroplane

1 7.1

To glide over water at high speed

verb
/ˈhaɪdroʊˌpleɪn/

: planear sobre el agua

During the storm, the car started to hydroplane along the highway, making it difficult to control.

Examples

With a sudden burst of power, the vessel hydroplaned smoothly toward the finish line.
Can you hydroplane across the lake?
As soon as the hull lifted, we could feel the boat hydroplaning over the surface of the water.
The racing boat began to hydroplane as it reached full speed across the lake.
The boat began to hydroplane as it reached high speeds.
The boat began to hydroplane across the lake, gliding smoothly over the water's surface.
As the speed increased, the jet ski began to hydroplane, skimming effortlessly over the waves.

Synonyms

to plane

vsto hydroplane

7.9

To move fast on water so a boat or board skims the surface

is broader, applying to boats and other similar vehicles that skim water

Antonyms

to sink

258 1.0

To go down below the surface of water and become underwater

Compounds

hydroplane racing

1 6.6

A sport where very fast motorboats race on water

How Fast

to hydroplane

1 7.1

to skim

1 2.9

to glide

89 2.9

to drift

331 2.9

Surface Forms

hydroplane infinitive

hydroplaned past

hydroplaned past participle

hydroplaning present participle

hydroplanes third person singular

Etymology

The verb hydroplane uses the same parts hydro- 'water' and plane 'to glide' or 'to skim', so to hydroplane means to glide or skim over the surface of water at high speed.