skateboard
a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, fiberglass, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance on the part of the rider than ordinaryroller skates do: Skateboards were pretty “primitive” back in the sixties.
to ride a skateboard: She skateboarded during her lunch break nearly every day.
Origin of skateboard
1Other words from skateboard
- skateboarder, noun
- skateboarding, noun
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How to use skateboard in a sentence
The skateboarder is as irredeemably evil as the others are noble.
If the downfall of Alex Rodriguez leaves you pining for a true sports hero, try skateboarder Danny Renaud.
Always in shorts and a baseball cap, Ali looks like a Syrian skateboarder.
Fair enough—but how do you get this young skateboarder-scholar-adventurer to a Taliban training camp?
British Dictionary definitions for skateboard
/ (ˈskeɪtˌbɔːd) /
a narrow board mounted on roller-skate wheels, usually ridden while standing up
(intr) to ride on a skateboard
Derived forms of skateboard
- skateboarder, noun
- skateboarding, noun
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