skateboard

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A 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.

2. 2
   noun

   A 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.

3. 3
   verb

   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.”

4. 4
   noun

   a board with wheels that is ridden in a standing or crouching position and propelled by foot

5. 5
   verb

   ride on a flat board with rollers attached to the bottom

Etymology

From skate + board. The foot-treadable skateboard sense (noun sense 1) came first (mid-20th century). The vehicle chassis sense (noun sense 2) was named for its resemblance thereto (late 20th or early 21st century).