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Definition: Skateboard |
SkateboardNoun1. A board with wheels that is ridden in a standing or crouching position. Verb1. Ride on a flat board with rollers attach to the bottom. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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A skateboard is a narrow platform with attached wheels, developed in the twentieth century from a scooter, for recreation and transportation, typically by young people.
It is typically made of wood, 76-91 cm long (2 1/2 to 3 feet) that is attached to 2 metal parts called trucks, which hold the wheels in place. These trucks are made of two parts: the top part of the truck is attached to the bottom part of the skateboard and is called the baseplate. The bottom part of the truck is called the hanger. Between the baseplate and the hanger are bushings (other names are rubbers and grommets) that provide the spring mechanism for turning the skateboard. A bolt called a kingpin holds the truck parts together. Attached to the two ends of each truck are wheels. On trains, and other vehicles, the similar item that holds the wheels to the vehicle are also called the trucks.
Skateboards are used for skateboarding and skateboarding tricks. A person who rides a skateboard is a skateboarder.
History of the skateboard
In the beginning, a skateboard was just made of wooden planks, little more than two by fours with the wheels from roller skates attached to the bottom. Often the wheels were made of clay.
Stage two was the plastic surfboard imitations that were small and unstable. The wheels began as clay but were later replaced with plastics.
Stage three was the attempt to make them more interesting and flexible. They all had kicktails now, an approximately 20 degree slope up of the last 7,5 or 10 cm (3 or 4 inches approx.) of the board, behind the back wheels. Materials included fiberglass ply (sucessful but seldom seen now) and aluminium (bad idea because the edges became very sharp). (The aluminium board, though, presaged the current skateboard style of having a kicktail at both ends).
Stage four was when the wide boards and trucks came on the scene and everything changed. The tricks that could be performed expanded tremendously and the equipment and control needed to handle extreme vertical terrain was finally available. This was the first renaissance in skateboarding (later followed by the Ollie). Boards were now 20 to 25 cm wide(8 to 10 inches approx.), with wheels well out to the edges. Wheels were generally soft polyurethane and came in a large variety of colors, sizes and degrees of hardness (durometer). The decks had a kicktail still, and a very useful convex surface running the length of the board.
Stage five was when the Ollie took over and the wide boards were too heavy and unidirectional to accommodate all of the tricks being invented. The boards narrowed to about 20 cm (8 inches approx.), with no front or back distinguishable. The wheels also narrowed to catch on things less and were made much harder to allow more sliding.
See also:
- Snakeboard
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Skateboard."
Crosswords: Skateboard |
| English words defined with "skateboard": skateboarder, skateboarding. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "skateboard": swamptrog. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Skateboard" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (skateboard), French (skateboard), German (skateboard), Italian (skate-board). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Every day is a lottery, and first prize is that you don't have to scoot yourself around town on a skateboard with your hands (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Skateboard Show (2002) Skateboard (1978) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "Josh skateboard ollie" by James O Commentary: "Josh hern ollie over the cone..." | "Red light room" by Roger Mexico Commentary: "Interior shot with cropped skateboard and lights in windows. ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Skateboard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.14% of the time. "Skateboard" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.14% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Noun (common) | 11.86% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 59 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
skateboard | 7,870 | bird house skateboard | 196 |
element skateboard | 782 | cheap skateboard | 180 |
skateboard trick | 650 | skateboard ramp plan | 175 |
skateboard shop | 549 | online skateboard shop | 144 |
skateboard ramp | 521 | enjoi skateboard | 139 |
skateboard shoes | 465 | old school skateboard | 133 |
blind skateboard | 419 | skateboard game | 114 |
skateboard trick tip | 411 | motorized skateboard | 110 |
skateboard deck | 349 | hook ups skateboard | 107 |
flip skateboard | 348 | skateboard pic | 103 |
skateboard video | 336 | skateboard wheels | 98 |
zero skateboard | 313 | world industry skateboard | 98 |
girl skateboard | 296 | skateboard tip | 91 |
skateboard picture | 274 | skateboard company | 87 |
skateboard logo | 250 | skateboard sticker | 85 |
longboard skateboard | 214 | skateboard wallpaper | 82 |
black label skateboard | 209 | skateboard clothing | 80 |
baker skateboard | 207 | skateboard truck | 79 |
shortys skateboard | 203 | skateboard video clip | 79 |
skateboard park | 197 | darkstar skateboard | 78 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "skateboard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 滑板. (various references) | |
Czech | skateboard. (various references) | |
Dutch | Schaatsplank (skate-board). (various references) | |
French | skateboard, planche à roulettes (skate-board), planche à roulette. (various references) | |
German | Skateboard (skate-board). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gördeszka. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | スケート靴 (scale, scale merit, scaling, scaling factor, scapegoat, schedule, scheduler, scheduling, scherzo, skates, skeleton, skeptic, skepticism, sketch, sketch phone, sketchbook, vernier), スクリュープロペラ船 (scraper, screw, screw ship, screwball, scroll, skate, skater, skating, skating rink, squat, sucrose). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | スケボー , スケートボード . (various references) | |
Korean | 스케이트보드. (various references) | |
Norwegian | rullebrett. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ateboardskay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | skate, patim-tábua. (various references) | |
Russian | роликовая доска. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | skejtbord. (various references) | |
Spanish | patín (bootee, runner, shoe, skate, skid), monopatín (skate-board). (various references) | |
Swedish | rullbräda. (various references) | |
Turkish | kaykay. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скейтборд. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "skateboard": skateboarder, skateboarders, skateboarding, skateboardings, skateboards. (additional references) | |
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"Skateboard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stateboard. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "skateboard" (pronounced skā"tbô'rd) |
| 5 | -t b ô' r d | dartboard, outboard. |
| 4 | -b ô' r d | aboveboard, baseboard, billboard, blackboard, cardboard, checkerboard, chessboard, chipboard, clapboard, clipboard, containerboard, dashboard, keyboard, linerboard, fiberboard, fibreboard, fingerboard, floorboard, hardboard, headboard, inboard, mopboard, onboard, overboard, paperboard, pegboard, plasterboard, pressboard, scoreboard, seaboard, shipboard, smorgasbord, snowboard, springboard, storyboard, surfboard, switchboard, wallboard, washboard. |
| 3 | -ô' r d | broadsword, clavichord, concord, landlord, harpsichord, notochord, overlord, underinsured, warlord. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-k-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: adsorbate, teaboards. | |
-2 letters: broadest, seaboard, teaboard. | |
-3 letters: abaters, abators, aborted, abrades, abreast, aerosat, arabesk, bastard, boasted, boaster, boaters, borated, borates, dabster, darkest, debarks, debtors, karates, rabatos, rebatos, roasted, sorbate, straked, stroked, tabards, tabored, torsade, troaked. | |
-4 letters: abased, abaser, abated, abater, abates, abator, aboard, abodes, aborts, abrade, abroad, adobes, adores, adsorb, aortae, aortas, ardebs, arkose. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-e-k-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: skateboards. | |
+2 letters: debarkations, skateboarder. | |
+3 letters: skateboarders, skateboarding. | |
+4 letters: disembarkation, skateboardings. | |
+5 letters: disembarkations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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