skateboardnoun/ˈskeɪt.bɔːd/

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  hobbieslifestylesportsA 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.

  • She's been riding skateboards since she was eight years old.
  • 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.”
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  automotivetransportvehiclesA skateboard vehicle chassis: a chassis format, used for electric vehicles, which holds the drive motors and power energy store (i.e. batteries), forming the vehicular base; an instance of this format.

  • A new crossover model will arrive next year and will be based on an existing skateboard.

skateboardverb/ˈskeɪt.bɔːd/

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  To use a skateboard.

  • “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.”
  • 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.