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air-cushion vehicle

n. A hovercraft.

Usage examples of "air-cushion vehicle".

Ned had forgotten how much handier an air-cushion vehicle was when the driver didn't have to contend with tonnes of armored inertia.

And he continued giving orders while proceeding to the nearest air-cushion vehicle and gesturing for it to take off towards Camp Narrow.

Friction with the soil was a more efficient means of braking than the vectored thrust of an air-cushion vehicle like Hula Girl.

He'd gotten his first glimpse of the air-cushion vehicle at rest in the background, behind the President.

An air-cushion vehicle drove off one of the concrete floats, hit the waves, and howled shoreward at a high rate of speed.

Pulling a trailer with an air-cushion vehicle wasn't a great deal of fun on surfaced roads, Dragging wheels through brush and plowed fields, as this crew had been doing, was like trying to swim with a boat anchor.

It was only marginally stable, extremely wet, and more than a little dangerous because the powerplant was a nacelle cannibalized from an air-cushion vehicle.