skateboard
See also: Skateboard
English
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Etymology
[edit]From skate + board. The foot-treadable skateboard sense (noun sense 1) came first (mid-20th century). The vehicle chassis sense (noun sense 2) was named for its resemblance thereto (late 20th or early 21st century).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
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skateboard (plural skateboards)
- (sports, recreation) 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.
- Hypernym: board (elliptically synonymous)
- Hyponyms: snakeboard, freeboard
- Coordinate term: snowboard
- She's been riding skateboards since she was eight years old.
- 2018 July 13, Jaime Marie Davis, “How photographers have captured skateboarding through generations”, in CNN[1]:
- In its May 1965 issue, Life magazine condemned skateboards as a “menace to limb and even to life,” and cautioned readers about riders who “take over the paths made for peaceful strollers.”
- 2024 July 27, Kyle Almond, “Ukrainian skateboarders take back their streets”, in CNN[2]:
- “Maybe it’s a video to talk about the situation. They use the skateboard as their weapons to (educate) the generation around Europe and the world,” Tutenges said. “It’s a good way to keep talking about Ukraine.”
- (automotive) A skateboard vehicle chassis: A chassis format, used for electric vehicles, which holds the drive motors and power energy store (i.e. batteries), forming the vehicular base; an instance of this format.
- A new crossover model will arrive next year and will be based on an existing skateboard.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]sports/recreation platform on wheels — see also scooter
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Verb
[edit]skateboard (third-person singular simple present skateboards, present participle skateboarding, simple past and past participle skateboarded)
- (intransitive) To use a skateboard.
- 2016 May 27, David G. Allan, “Get on board: The new four-wheeled sport for everyone”, in CNN[3]:
- “Mentally, it’s hard to live here,” a teenage skateboarder named Konstantino told him. “So we skateboard to free ourselves and heal ourselves. We go out into the street every day, as if it were our medicine.”
- 2024 July 27, Kyle Almond, “Ukrainian skateboarders take back their streets”, in CNN[4]:
- He explained how the race was initially his idea, but it was Gay – a Bend resident ranked fourth in the world for the most miles skateboarded in 24 hours – who had to “sell the whole idea to the city” while seeking permission to host the race.
Translations
[edit]to use a skateboard
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Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English skateboard.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]skateboard m inan (relational adjective skateboardový)
Declension
[edit]Declension of skateboard (hard masculine inanimate)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | skateboard | skateboardy |
| genitive | skateboardu | skateboardů |
| dative | skateboardu | skateboardům |
| accusative | skateboard | skateboardy |
| vocative | skateboarde | skateboardy |
| locative | skateboardu | skateboardech |
| instrumental | skateboardem | skateboardy |
Derived terms
[edit]- skateboardista m anim
- skateboarďák m anim
Related terms
[edit]- skateboarding m inan
See also
[edit]- skatepark m inan
- snowboard m inan
- snowboarding m inan
Further reading
[edit]- “skateboard”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English skateboard.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]skateboard n (plural skateboards, diminutive skateboardje n)
Related terms
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English skateboard.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]skateboard m (countable and uncountable, plural skateboards)
- (uncountable) skateboarding
- Synonyms: skate, planche à roulettes
- Le skateboard est l'une de ses activités favorites.
- Skateboarding is one of his favorite activities.
- (countable) skateboard
- Synonyms: skate m, planche de skate, planche à roulettes, planche à roues
- Ce magasin a vendu énormément de skateboards l'année passée.
- This store sold a huge number of skateboards last year.
Usage notes
[edit]Proscribed by the Office québécois de la langue française.
Related terms
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English skateboard.
Noun
[edit]skateboard n (plural skateboarduri)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative-accusative | skateboard | skateboardul | skateboarduri | skateboardurile |
| genitive-dative | skateboard | skateboardului | skateboarduri | skateboardurilor |
| vocative | skateboardule | skateboardurilor | ||
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]skateboard m (plural skateboards)
Swedish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English skateboard.
Noun
[edit]skateboard c
- a skateboard
- (sports) skateboarding
- tävla i skateboard
- compete in skateboarding
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | skateboard | skateboards |
| definite | skateboarden | skateboardens | |
| plural | indefinite | skateboards, skateboardar | skateboards, skateboardars |
| definite | skateboardarna | skateboardarnas |
Derived terms
[edit]- skateboardåkare (“skateboarder”)
- skateboardåkning (“skateboarding”)
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “skateboard”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “skateboard”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
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