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aquaplane🔊

(originally US, water sports) A board on which a person stands to ride for leisure which is pulled on a water surface by a motorboat.

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At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.

(sports) To ride for leisure standing up on a board pulled on a water surface by a motorboat.

(by extension, chiefly British, automotive) Of a car or other road vehicle: to lose traction with the road due to the vehicle's tyres sliding on a film of water on the road.

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