skateboard

See also: Skateboard

English

A standard skateboard

Etymology

From skate +‎ board.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

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.
2. (automotive) A vehicle chassis format, used for electric vehicles, which holds the drive motors and power energy store (ie. batteries), forming the vehicular base.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• electric skateboard
• e-skateboard
• skateboard deck
• skateboarding
• skateboard rail
• skateboard truck
• skateboard wheel

Translations

sports/recreation platform on wheels

• Afrikaans: skaatsplank
• Arabic: لَوْح اَلتَّزَلُّج (lawḥ at-tazalluj), سكيتبورد (skītbūrd)
• Armenian: սքեյթբորդ (hy) (skʻeytʻbord), սքեյթ (hy) (skʻeytʻ) (colloquial)
• Belarusian: скейтбо́рд m (skjejtbórd)
• Breton: plankenn-ruilh
• Bulgarian: скейтборд m (skejtbord)
• Catalan: monopatí (ca) m
• Central Melanau: asok jului
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 滑板 (waat⁶ baan²)

  Mandarin: 滑板 (zh) (huábǎn)

• Cornish: rostell f
• Czech: skateboard m
• Dutch: skateboard (nl) n
• Esperanto: rultabulo
• Estonian: rula
• Faroese: rullifjøl f, rennifjøl f
• Finnish: skeittilauta (fi), skede (fi) (slang), rullalauta (fi)
• French: planche à roulettes (fr) f (dated), skateboard (fr) m, skate (fr) m
• Galician: monopatín m
• Georgian: სკეიტბორდი (sḳeiṭbordi)
• German: Skateboard (de) n
• Greek: σκέιτμπορντ (el) n (skéitmpornt)
• Hawaiian: papa huila
• Hebrew: סקייטבורד (skeitbord)
• Hindi: स्केटबोर्ड (skeṭborḍ)
• Hungarian: gördeszka (hu)
• Icelandic: hjólabretti n
• Indonesian: papan luncur
• Irish: clár scátála m
• Italian: skateboard (it) m, tavola a rotelle f, tavola da skate f
• Japanese: スケートボード (ja) (sukētobōdo)
• Kazakh: скейтборд (skeitbord)
• Korean: 스케이트보드 (seukeiteubodeu)
• Latin: tabula subrotata f
• Latvian: skrituļdēlis m
• Lithuanian: riedlentė
• Macedonian: скејтборд (mk) m (skejtbord)
• Malay:

  Jawi: ڤاڤن لونچور

  Rumi: papan luncur, papan selaju, papan roda

• Maori: papawīra
• Mongolian: мод (mn) (mod)
• Norman: plianche à rouôlettes f
• Norwegian: rullebrett
• Occitan: monopatin m
• Persian: تخته‌اسکیت (taxte-eskeyt), اسکیت‌بورد (eskeyt-bord)
• Polish: deskorolka (pl) f, deska (pl) (colloquially)
• Portuguese: skate (pt) m, esqueite (pt) m
• Russian: скейтбо́рд (ru) m (skejtbórd), скейт (ru) m (skejt) (colloquial)
• Sardinian: patinetta
• Scots: skatebuird, skeitchbuird
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: скејтборд m

  Roman: skejtbord (sh) m

• Slovak: skejtbord m
• Slovene: rolka f
• Spanish: monopatín (es) m, patineta (es) f (Latin America), skate (anglicism)
• Swedish: skateboard (sv) c, rullbräda (sv) c, bräda (sv) c (board) (when clear from context)
• Thai: สเกตบอร์ด (sà-gét-bɔ̀ɔt)
• Tigrinya: መንሻተቲ ጣውላ (mänšatäti ṭawla)
• Turkish: kaykay (tr)
• Ukrainian: скейтбо́рд m (skejtbórd)
• Vietnamese: ván trượt
• Welsh: bwrdd sgrialu m
• Yiddish: סקייטבאָרד (skeytbord)

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To use a skateboard.

Translations

to use a skateboard

• Cornish: rostella
• Dutch: skateboarden (nl)
• Esperanto: rultabulumi
• Finnish: skeitata (fi), skedettää, rullalautailla (fi)
• French: skater (fr), faire du skate
• German: skateboarden
• Hungarian: gördeszkázik (hu)
• Icelandic: (slang) skeita
• Irish: clárscátáil
• Maori: eke papawīra
• Polish: jechać na deskorolce (pl) impf (now), jeździć na deskorolce (pl) impf (regularly)
• Portuguese: andar de skate
• Swedish: åka skateboard, skateboarda, skejta (sv), åka bräda
• Turkish: kaykay yapmak (tr)
• Welsh: sgrialu

Czech

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English skateboard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈskɛjdbort], [ˈskɛjdboːrt]
• Hyphenation: skate‧board

Noun

skateboard m inan (related adjective skateboardový)

1. skateboard

Declension

Declension of skateboard (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	skateboard	skateboardy
genitive	skateboardu	skateboardů
dative	skateboardu	skateboardům
accusative	skateboard	skateboardy
vocative	skateboarde	skateboardy
locative	skateboardu	skateboardech
instrumental	skateboardem	skateboardy

Derived terms

• skateboardista m anim
• skateboarďák m anim

 

Related terms

• skateboarding m inan

 

See also

• skatepark m inan
• snowboard m inan
• snowboarding m inan

 

Further reading

• “skateboard”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English skateboard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskeːt.bɔrt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: skate‧board

Noun

skateboard n (plural skateboards, diminutive skateboardje n)

1. skateboard

Related terms

• skateboarden
• skateboarder

 

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English skateboard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɛt.bɔʁd/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

skateboard m (countable and uncountable, plural skateboards)

1. (uncountable) skateboarding

   Synonyms: skate, planche à roulettes

   Le skateboard est l’une de ses activités favorites.

   Skateboarding is one of his favorite activities.

2. (countable) skateboard

   Synonyms: skate m, planche de skate, planche à roulettes, planche à roues

   Ce magasin a vendu énormément de skateboards l’année passée.

   This store sold a huge number of skateboards last year.

Usage notes

Proscribed by the Office québécois de la langue française.

Related terms

• skateboardeur m
• skater m
• skateur m

 

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English skateboard.

Noun

skateboard n (plural skateboarduri)

1. skateboard

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	skateboard	skateboardul		skateboarduri	skateboardurile
genitive-dative	skateboard	skateboardului		skateboarduri	skateboardurilor
vocative	skateboardule			skateboardurilor

Spanish

Noun

skateboard m (plural skateboards)

1. skateboard

Swedish

Alternative forms

• skejtboard

Etymology

Borrowed from English skateboard.

Noun

skateboard c

1. a skateboard

   Synonyms: rullbräda, bräda (“board”)

   åka skateboard

   ride a skateboard / go skateboarding

2. (sports) skateboarding

   tävla i skateboard

   compete in skateboarding

Declension

Declension of skateboard

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	skateboard	skateboards
	definite	skateboarden	skateboardens
plural	indefinite	skateboards, skateboardar	skateboards, skateboardars
	definite	skateboardarna	skateboardarnas

Derived terms

• skateboardåkare (“skateboarder”)
• skateboardåkning (“skateboarding”)

Related terms

• skateboarda

See also

• skejta
• skejtare
• snowboard
• wakeboard

References

• skateboard in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• skateboard in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)