aquaboard

plural aquaboards

1. rareA board, wider than a water ski but narrower than a surfboard, designed for water skiing with both feet on the same board.

   On his recent trip he confined himself to driving a runabout, towing Lynda Bird on an aquaboard, trying rather unsuccessfully to teach her to ski.

   1964, MotorBoating, volume 114, number 3, page 155

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   No person shall operate a personal watercraft to tow a water skier, aquaboard or other similar device unless there is in such vessel a competent observer, in addition to the operator, and the personal watercraft is designed by the manufacturer to carry the operator, the observer and the person(s) being towed.

   1975, Delaware Code Annotated - Volume 12, page 37

   I don't know how much he had left, but it was enough to continue living in a large penthouse in what was once his prideful project, to have a lively summer place on Tupper Lake — where I learned to ride an aquaboard behind his Cris-Craft (was it cold when we fell off into the lake!) — and in general to live in ample luxury with his large family.

   1996, Benjamin Graham, Seymour Benjamin Chatman, Benjamin Graham, the Memoirs of the Dean of Wall Street, page 261

   The rope used had to be long enough to get the aquaboard rider well away from the propeller—fifteen feet was a good length. A ride started with the motorboat slowly gaining speed and the rider lying down flat on the board.

   2013, Claudine Burnett, Paul Burnett, Surfing Newport Beach: The Glory Days of Corona Del Mar