skateboardn.
/ˈskeɪtbɔːd/, U.S. /ˈskeɪtˌbɔrd/ Originally U.S.
A narrow platform mounted on roller-skate wheels, on which the rider coasts along, usually in a standing position (originally developed from surf-riding, chiefly as a pastime). Also attributive.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > skateboarding > [noun] > skateboard
skateboard1964
snakeboard1992
Mountainboard1996
1964 Life 5 June 89 Skateboards appeared last fall in southern California.
1964 Surfer Sept. 72 No one, except possibly the skateboard manufacturers, took them seriously until recently.
1964 Surfer Sept. 76 When they can't go out in the water and surf, they can do it on land with a skate~board.
1965 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 21 Apr. 5/6 Hundreds of vacationing teen-agers..wheeled to City Hall yesterday on their skate boards to demand an off-the-street area to carry on their latest fad.
1974 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 21 Aug. 18/6 He was..a legless cripple whose only means of locomotion was a skate board.
1976 A. Cassorla Skateboarder's Bible i. 9 Already in the works are extensive skateboard parks.
1976 C. Weston Rouse Demon (1977) xxi. 96 A boy on a skateboard whirled by on the sidewalk.
1978 K. Amis Jake's Thing xx. 204 The local authorities wanted..a skateboard park built on the site.
1978 Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 23/1 (advt.) Used Car Parts (fronting the quay, adjoining skateboard rink).
1980 P. Harcourt Tomorrow's Treason i. i. 28 An even smaller boy..seemingly unable to get off his skate~board..was careering straight into the path of my car.
Derivatives
ˈskateboard v. intransitive to ride on a skateboard.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > skateboarding > skateboard [verb (intransitive)]
ride1965
skateboard1968
1968 W. Warwick Surfriding in N.Z. 19/1 To skateboard properly the rider should have a reasonable sense of balance.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 3 July 12/2 They're..‘taking it to the limit’: skateboarding up the sides of empty swimming pools and pipelines.
1979 V. S. Naipaul Bend in River xv. 249 A wise, sloping avenue..with boys skateboarding.
ˈskateboarder n.
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slalomist1956
sidewalk surfer1964
skateboarder1964
skater1977
skatepunk1985
1964 Life 5 June 89 A good skate~boarder can do all a surfer's tricks and more.
1964 Surfer Sept. 74 Some of the skateboarders have set up slalom courses, timing each other from stand-still starts.
1977 Times 15 Oct. 24/2 The odd skateboarder en route for the adventure playground.
ˈskateboarding n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > skateboarding > [noun]
sidewalk surfing1963
skateboarding1964
1964 Life 5 June 89 Skateboarding requires only a tapered piece of wood flexibly mounted on roller-skate wheels and a stretch of pavement.
1978 Morecambe Guardian 14 Mar. 4/5 Coun. Mrs Taylor said that if any children still felt strongly about having no skateboarding park they should contact her so that a united effort could be made.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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