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# skateboard

«skateboard» in Mova's school dictionary: **a narrow board with four small wheels, which you stand on…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a skateboard, skateboards); verb (skateboard, skateboards, skateboarded, skateboarding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A skateboard is a narrow board with four small wheels, which you stand on and ride by pushing with one foot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skateboard/#m1)

2) To skateboard means to ride a skateboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skateboard/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety lessons skateboarding needs a helmet, knee and elbow pads, and a safe place away from traffic. Skateboarding is also an Olympic sport. Phrases: «ride a skateboard», «skateboard park», «skate park», «do tricks».

### examples

- I got a skateboard for my birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skateboard/#x1)
- Wear a helmet when you skateboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skateboard/#x2)
- We go skateboarding at the skate park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skateboard/#x3)
- He can do a trick on his skateboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skateboard/#x4)
- Don't skateboard on the busy road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skateboard/#x5)
- Her skateboard has green wheels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skateboard/#x6)
- Skateboarding became an Olympic sport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skateboard/#x7)

### note

Countable as a noun. Person: skateboarder. Informally «skate». Safety: helmets and pads, no riding near traffic or down steep hills, and check your board's wheels.

### In the corpora

- [For example, a girl in Denver gets $5 pocket money a week and wants a $40 skateboard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/37-things-and-money/7/)
- [Skateboards and roller skates are hard to stop quickly, so they are used in parks and skate parks, not on busy streets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks/13/)
- [Later he tried skateboard tricks to impress her, fell off and scraped his knee, and Lily asked if he was OK.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «skateboard» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skateboard/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.