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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
skateboard
noun
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Skateboard Tow Head on his skateboard threads through a crowd of feet and faces delayed to a slow stupidity.
▪ A new voucher system enables kids to choose attractive and colourful frames, which reflect the brightness of mountain bikes and skateboards.
▪ A teenager carrying his skateboard passed a man wearing a yarmulke.
▪ He finds a lumber mill and a metal shop that will sell him wood planks and wheels for $ 5 per skateboard.
▪ Students may remember their early failures in learning to ride a bike or a skateboard, or learning to swim.
▪ Suddenly she trips over a skateboard in front of a home and crashes to the ground.
▪ These include a skateboard and a punchball.
▪ Undoubtably you will come across Koopas making a getaway on a skateboard, bike, balloon, or whatever.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
skateboard

1964, noun and verb, from skate (v.) on model of surfboard. The phenomenon began c.1963 in southern California and was nationwide the following summer.\n\nSkateboarding requires only a tapered piece of wood flexibly mounted on roller-skate wheels and a stretch of pavement -- preferably downhill and away from traffic.

["Life," June 5, 1964]

Wiktionary
skateboard

n. A narrow, wooden or plastic platform mounted on pairs of wheels, on which one stands and propels oneself by pushing along the ground with one foot. vb. (context intransitive English) To use a skateboard.

WordNet
skateboard
  1. n. a board with wheels that is ridden in a standing or crouching position

  2. v. ride on a flat board with rollers attached to the bottom

Wikipedia
Skateboard

A skateboard is a type of sports equipment used primarily for the activity of skateboarding. It usually consists of a specially designed maplewood board combined with a polyurethane coating used for making smoother slides and stronger durability. Most skateboards are made with 7 plies of this wood.

A skateboard is propelled by pushing with one foot while the other remains on the board, or by pumping one's legs in structures such as a bowl or half pipe. A skateboard can also be used by simply standing on the deck while on a downward slope and allowing gravity to propel the board and rider. If the rider positions their right foot forward, he/she is said to ride " goofy;" if the rider positions their left foot forward, he/she is said to ride " regular." If the rider is normally regular but chooses to ride goofy, he/she is said to be riding in " switch," and vice versa. A skater is typically more comfortable pushing with their back foot; choosing to push with the front foot is commonly referred to as riding " mongo".

Recently, electric skateboards have also appeared. These no longer require the propelling of the skateboard by means of the feet; rather an electric motor propels the board, fed by an electric battery.

There is no governing body that declares any regulations on what constitutes a skateboard or the parts from which it is assembled. Historically, the skateboard has conformed both to contemporary trends and to the ever-evolving array of stunts performed by riders/users, who require a certain functionality from the board. Of course, the board shape depends largely upon its desired function. Longboards are a type of skateboard with a longer wheelbase and larger, softer wheels.

The two main types of skateboards are the longboard and the shortboard. The shape of the board is also important: the skateboard must be concaved to perform tricks. Longboards are usually faster and are mostly used for cruising and racing, while shortboards are mostly used for doing tricks.

Skateboard (film)

Skateboard is a 1977 American film directed by George Gage and starring Leif Garrett. Tony Alva features in a cameo as "Tony Blue-tile".

Usage examples of "skateboard".

And though Ceese could never understand the words, since Raymo was facing away and his voice was mostly lost in the noise of the skateboard, he got the message just fine: You always a loser compared to Raymo.

So it happened that only Bernice noticed the skateboarding punk-rocker of an Elder God on anabolic steroids who was accelerating ominously towards them from way back down the boulevard, sparks grating from the skateboard wheels, squatting in a kind of schuss position and gnashing her ominously long, needle-sharp teeth.

Jugglers, unicyclists, skateboard acrobats, kids slamming on guitars so cheap they were just rhythm instruments.

It had been her idea, and her idea alone, to ban picnics, snacks, alcoholic beverages, bicycles, jogging, motorcycles, skateboards, Rollerblades, recreational vehicles, vehicles pulling trailers and boom boxes from the grounds.

There was a photograph I took at Brockport [of] a guy sunbathing, leaning back on his skateboard.

Also with his back in mind, he tied the clothes basket to Ethan's old skateboard and he dropped a drawstring bag down the laundry chute at the end of a rope.

Mark was half hers already, and had been from the moment Joseph Kalendar’s hellhouse had surged out of the mist and knocked him off his stupid skateboard.

Marilee wrote long descriptions of breadlines for all the people who had been put out of work by the Depression, and of men in nice suits who obviously used to have money, but who were now selling apples on street corners, and of a legless man on a sort of skateboard, who was a World War One veteran or was pretending to be one, selling pencils in Grand Central Station, and of high-society people thrilled to be hobnobbing with gangsters in speakeasies -- that sort of thing.

Which is why on an expensive skateboard, like this one definitely is, you can get, as an extra added safety feature, the RadiKS Narrow Cone Tuned Shock Wave Projector.

Further on, rowdy youngsters of school age were hanging around a fast food restaurant in the Broadway, balancing on skateboards and climbing on the raised flowerbeds.

In the shopping precinct opposite Russell Square Station, boys were playing on skateboards.

He and Jimbo had been out with their skateboards, trying simultaneously to improve their skills, look at least faintly impressive, and irritate a few neighbors.

A well-known foe of skateboards, Skip, old Omar Hillyard’s even more ancient, big-nosed dog, pushed itself to its feet and uttered a sonorous bark completely empty of threat.

Present from the first moment the place revealed itself to him, the sense that it possessed a will, even the capacity for desire, had taken hold in him while he and Jimbo had stood before it with their skateboards in their hands.

For another hour, they pushed their skateboards uphill and rode them down, jumping off curbs and doing ollies.