skateboard
Americannoun
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skateboards
plural
verb (used without object)
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skateboards,
present (3rd person singular)
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skateboarded,
past participle, past
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skateboarding
present participle
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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skateboardsimple
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skateboardssimple
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have skateboardedperfect
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has skateboardedperfect
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am skateboardingprogressive
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are skateboardingprogressive
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is skateboardingprogressive
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have been skateboardingperfect progressive
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has been skateboardingperfect progressive
Past
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skateboardedsimple
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had skateboardedperfect
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was skateboardingprogressive
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were skateboardingprogressive
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had been skateboardingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of skateboard
Explanation
A skateboard is a board with wheels on the bottom that you ride standing up. If you practice enough, you'll be able to do tricks on your skateboard, or at least ride down the block without falling off. When you ride your skateboard, you can say that you skateboard or skate. The sport or activity you do on a skateboard is skateboarding. The first skateboards, consisting of boxes or boards fitted with wheels from roller skates, appeared in the 1940s. The earliest skateboarders were surfers who wanted a way to practice even when they were on dry land—because of this, they were sometimes called "sidewalk surfers."
Example Sentences
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“I grew up on the Westside. I went to school in Santa Monica. I bought my first skateboard at Rip City,” Adler said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
If he had amassed the same number of records, skateboard decks or vintage gaming consoles — all fire hazards — would he have gotten the same eviction warning?
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Mark, on a skateboard, and Jacob, also wearing inline skates, followed a little over an arm’s length behind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
"He'd stuff in her garage including a skateboard and a workbench and he'd come looking them back."
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
The first was being babysat by some boy in a uniform holding a broken skateboard across his lap, stroking it like a hurt dog.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
The sign on the tennis courts read 'no bikes and no skateboards'.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Currently, she has eleven “champion trick-trained” dogs that can even ride skateboards if the party gets too dull.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2025
The album’s title track, “Vida Rockstar,” opens with skateboards hitting concrete and the high shrill of a skater’s dragging heel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
Sawyer showcases favorite old skateboards, snowboards, bikes, canoes and collateral in his wood shop.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
Thom, Rado, and I hunkered in the mangroves and held our skateboards over our heads, to keep the raindrops out of our eyes.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
So he must have skateboarded as a kid growing up in Long Beach, right?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026
A 21-year-old man has skateboarded from Brighton to Africa in 55 days.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025
He photographed sunsets and skateboarded, a passion that he’d had since he was 6 — one his stepfather thought he was too old for.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
He has crowd-surfed, skateboarded and made memorable quips at nationally televised debates.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2019
When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone’s heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
My brothers were particularly fond of one wooden ewe mounted on wheels, which gave her the jaunty appearance of a sheep who had recently discovered skateboarding.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
While the Olympics have recently added skateboarding, surfing and breakdancing, the Commonwealths - with India having a big say - look set to reintroduce cricket, shooting, archery and hockey.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
She is outgoing and active and enjoys surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding and volunteering at a farm once a week, Walker said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
There has also been a noticeable decline in the number of childhood injuries from other outdoor activities such as skateboarding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
He’d rather be skateboarding, or spitting, or sticking gum on the floor 9 elevator button so that cranky Mr. Watkins had something to give him the stink eye for.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
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