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語源

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).

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名詞

skateboard (plural skateboards)

1. (sports, recreation) 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.

   Hypernym: board (elliptically synonymous)

   Hyponyms: snakeboard, freeboard

   Coordinate term: snowboard

   She's been riding skateboards since she was eight years old.

   • 2018 July 13, Jaime Marie Davis, “How photographers have captured skateboarding through generations”, in CNN‎:

     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.”

   • 2024 July 27, Kyle Almond, “Ukrainian skateboarders take back their streets”, in CNN‎:

     “Maybe it’s a video to talk about the situation. They use the skateboard as their weapons to (educate) the generation around Europe and the world,” Tutenges said. “It’s a good way to keep talking about Ukraine.”

2. (automotive) 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.

派生語

動詞

skateboard (third-person singular simple present skateboards, present participle skateboarding, simple past and past participle skateboarded)

1. (intransitive) To use a skateboard.
   • 2016 May 27, David G. Allan, “Get on board: The new four-wheeled sport for everyone”, in CNN‎:

     “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.”

   • 2024 July 27, Kyle Almond, “Ukrainian skateboarders take back their streets”, in CNN‎:

     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.