How to spell skateboard

Skateboard is spelled S-K-A-T-E-B-O-A-R-D.

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What it means: A board with wheels used for riding.

In a sentence: She loves to ride her skateboard at the park.

Same family: skate, skater, skateboarding, longboard, skatepark. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word “skateboard” comes from combining “skate” (originally from ice skates and roller skates) with “board,” because early skateboarders attached roller-skate wheels to wooden boards. The sport became popular in California in the 1950s and 1960s as a way for surfers to “surf” on land.

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