skateboard

From skate +‎ board.

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skateboard (plural skateboards)

1. (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.
   • 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.”

2. (automotive) A vehicle chassis format, used for electric vehicles, which holds the drive motors and power energy store (ie. batteries), forming the vehicular base.

skateboard (third-person singular simple present skateboards, present participle skateboarding, simple past and past participle skateboarded)

1. (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.

Unadapted borrowing from English skateboard.

• IPA^(key): [ˈskɛjdbort], [ˈskɛjdboːrt]
• Hyphenation: skate‧board

skateboard m inan (relational adjective skateboardový)

1. skateboard

• “skateboard”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed from English skateboard.

• IPA^(key): /ˈskeːt.bɔrt/

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• Hyphenation: skate‧board

skateboard n (plural skateboards, diminutive skateboardje n)

1. skateboard

Borrowed from English skateboard.

• IPA^(key): /skɛt.bɔʁd/

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skateboard m (countable and uncountable, plural skateboards)

1. (uncountable) skateboarding

   Synonyms: skate, planche à roulettes

   Le skateboard est l'une de ses activités favorites.

   Skateboarding is one of his favorite activities.

2. (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.

Proscribed by the Office québécois de la langue française.

Unadapted borrowing from English skateboard.

skateboard n (plural skateboarduri)

1. skateboard

skateboard m (plural skateboards)

1. skateboard

• skejtboard

Borrowed from English skateboard.

skateboard c

1. a skateboard

   Synonyms: rullbräda, bräda (“board”)

   åka skateboard

   ride a skateboard / go skateboarding

2. (sports) skateboarding

   tävla i skateboard

   compete in skateboarding

• skateboardåkare (“skateboarder”)
• skateboardåkning (“skateboarding”)

• skateboarda

• skejta
• skejtare
• snowboard
• wakeboard

• skateboard in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• skateboard in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)