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skateboard, n. orig. U.S.|ˈskeɪtbɔəd|
Also skate board.
[f. skate n.2, after surfboard.]
A narrow platform mounted on roller-skate wheels, on which the rider coasts along, usu. in a standing position (orig. developed from surf-riding, chiefly as a pastime). Also attrib.
1964Life 5 June 89 Skateboards appeared last fall in southern California. 1964Surfer Sept. 72 No one, except possibly the skateboard manufacturers, took them seriously until recently. Ibid. 76 When they can't go out in the water and surf, they can do it on land with a skate⁓board. 1965Globe & 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. 1974Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 21 Aug. 18/6 He was..a legless cripple whose only means of locomotion was a skate board. 1976A. Cassorla Skateboarder's Bible i. 9 Already in the works are extensive skateboard parks. 1976C. Weston Rouse Demon (1977) xxi. 96 A boy on a skateboard whirled by on the sidewalk. 1978K. Amis Jake's Thing xx. 204 The local authorities wanted..a skateboard park built on the site. 1978Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 23/1 (Advt.), Used Car Parts (fronting the quay, adjoining skateboard rink). 1980P. 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.
Hence ˈskateboard v. intr., to ride on a skateboard; ˈskateboarder; ˈskateboarding vbl. n.
1964Life 5 June 89 Skateboarding requires only a tapered piece of wood flexibly mounted on roller-skate wheels and a stretch of pavement. Ibid., A good skate⁓boarder can do all a surfer's tricks and more. 1964Surfer Sept. 74 Some of the skateboarders have set up slalom courses, timing each other from stand-still starts. 1968W. Warwick Surfriding in N.Z. 19/1 To skateboard properly the rider should have a reasonable sense of balance. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 3 July 12/2 They're..‘taking it to the limit’: skateboarding up the sides of empty swimming pools and pipelines. 1977Times 15 Oct. 24/2 The odd skateboarder en route for the adventure playground. 1978Morecambe 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. 1979V. S. Naipaul Bend in River xv. 249 A wise, sloping avenue..with boys skateboarding. |
