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 →

2) To skateboard means to ride a skateboard. tree →

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 →
• Wear a helmet when you skateboard. tree →
• We go skateboarding at the skate park. tree →
• He can do a trick on his skateboard. tree →
• Don't skateboard on the busy road. tree →
• Her skateboard has green wheels. tree →
• Skateboarding became an Olympic sport. tree →

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.
• Skateboards and roller skates are hard to stop quickly, so they are used in parks and skate parks, not on busy streets.
• Later he tried skateboard tricks to impress her, fell off and scraped his knee, and Lily asked if he was OK.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «skateboard» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.