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skateboard

skateboard

68 1.2
A flat board with wheels that you stand on and push with one foot
  • noun
  • /ˈskeɪtˌbɔrd/
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  • As he went down the steps toward the cab, a boy on a skateboard swerved by.

He's standing on a skateboard to lift the the weight.

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Examples

  • Let's grab another skateboard and do it again.

  • Now, what are you doing with my skateboard?

  • This might be the electric skateboard that you want.

  • But the best thing about this skateboard is that it can do both.

  • I think we should start a skateboard team, man.

  • So this is an electric skateboard and it uses a remote.

  • Stilts sets his skateboard on the street and rolls it toward Nick.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • In town, when the summer light came, children undulated through the streets on skateboards.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • He rode his skateboard down the street, performing tricks along the way.

  • After school, the kids gathered at the park to practice on their skateboards.

Synonyms

hoverboard
vsskateboard
2 7.2

A board that floats above the ground in films and stories

is a wheeled flat board ridden standing or crouching and pushed
longboard
vsskateboard
1 3.4

A long skateboard used for cruising or riding downhill

is a flat board on wheels used for standing or crouching and pushed
kickboard
vsskateboard
4.4

A small two-wheeled board you ride by pushing one foot on the ground

is a flat board on wheels ridden while standing or crouching and pushed

How Long

longboard
1 3.4
skateboard
68 1.2
fingerboard
1 6.6

Surface Forms

skateboard singular
skateboards plural

Morphology

skateboard = skate + board (transparent) = skate + board

The meaning is the direct combination of 'skate' (skating) + 'board' (a flat plank), so learners can infer 'a board used for skating'.

Etymology

Skateboard comes from the two words skate and board. skate means 'to glide' like on ice and board means a flat piece of wood ('board'), so a skateboard is a 'board' you glide on that has wheels.