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Wiktionary
n. (context science fiction English) A levitate board that can be ride in the manner of a surfboard or skateboard.
Wikipedia
A hoverboard (or hover board) is a fictional levitating board used for personal transportation, first described by author M. K. Joseph in 1967 and popularized by the Back to the Future film franchise. Hoverboards are generally depicted as resembling a skateboard without wheels. During the 1990s there were rumors, fueled by director Robert Zemeckis, that hoverboards were in fact real, but not marketed because they were deemed too dangerous by parents' groups. These rumors have been conclusively debunked. The hoverboard concept has been used by many authors in various forms of media.
The Guinness World Records recognizes the term hoverboard to include autonomously powered personal levitators. In May 2015, the Romania-born Canadian inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru set a Guinness World Record by travelling a distance of at heights up to over a lake, on an autonomously powered hoverboard of his own design.
On April 30, 2016, Guinness World Records recognized a new record of 2,252.4 m. The Flyboard Air was powered by jet engine propulsion, and its use allowed Franky Zapata, in Sausset-les-Pins, France to beat the previous record by nearly 2 km.
Another method of achieving levitation is superconductivity, used by the Slide hoverboard.
Usage examples of "hoverboard".
Ray opened a glue packet, spread it liberally on top of the hoverboard, and then gently laid the smart bomb on top of the viscous layer.
Next, Ray glued the plasteel rope to the front of the hoverboard and loosely coiled it.