hoverboard
/ˈhɒvəbɔːd/noun
(Chiefly in science fiction) a means of transport resembling a skateboard that travels above the surface of the ground, ridden in a standing position: an entire generation of kids grew up wishing they could one day ride a hoverboard...
- That hoverboard made me really, really want to be living in the year 2015.
- Imagine how much easier it would have been for Riddick to totally outrun the sun if he would have had a hoverboard or jetpack.
- The Stealth Hoverboard from Go-Ped is exactly what I want: the "most evolutionary development in personal transportation since the foot."
Origin
1980s: from hover + -board (as in skateboard), popularized by the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II.