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{{trope|wppage=Hoverboard}}
[[File:hover board.png|link=Jak and Daxter|frame|Skateboards [[Recycled in Space|IN THE FUTURE!]]]]
{{quote|'''Ulrich:''' Whoa, how does Odd manage to pilot this thing?
'''Aelita:''' ''(shrugs)'' [[Stealth Pun|He's not afraid of falling...]]<ref>He's a cat boy, you see.</ref>
|''[[Code Lyoko]]'', "Bad Connection" }}
A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Cool Board]], the main recreational device in the future is the Hover Board. Like an all-terrain skateboard, the '''Hover Board''' is [[Rule of Cool|totally awesome]] and likely gained popularity with the movie ''[[Back to The Future]] Part II''. Many [[Speculative Fiction]] series set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|20 minutes or further into the future]] will have these things fly through the streets. Or even through the air, when it really shouldn't because that's when it stops being hovering and starts being [[Sky Surfing]].
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May be accompanied by hover bikes, scooters, and skates as well. Hoverboards are very, very popular in [[Video Games]]. Usually a large part of the gameplay in a futuristic platformer involves riding and acquiring these vehicles, although they're just as likely to be temporary power-ups.
Not to be confused with the self-balancing scooters from the early 21st Century, which are wheeled vehicles that don't actually hover [[Non-Indicative Name|but are marketed under the name "hoverboard" anyway]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Eureka Seven]]'', where even some of the Humongous Mecha use Hover Boards. Unlike most though, they're more analogous to surfboards than skateboards.
** Curiously, they do have wheels - just one, though, and the axle runs the same direction as the board itself. They seem to be involved in handling, since Renton mentions that a bigger wheel limits the rider's capacity to make sharp turns.
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* Marvel's Rocket Racer. And Nighttrasher. And Gaylord.
* The V-Wing used by the [[Thunderbolts]] is a rare multi-person hoverboard.
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== Video Games ==
* The ''[[Sonic Riders]]'' series has "Extreme Gear", which is usually these.
** However, sometimes it's other various things like shoes or brooms. {{spoiler|The first Extreme Gear was a flying carpet}}. The main defining trait of Extreme Gear seems to be that it floats and can go fast enough.
** One gear in the "board" category is actually ''called'' the Hoverboard (well, Hovercraft). It looks like a cloud.
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* ''[[Super Paper Mario]]''
* ''Kid Chameleon''
* ''[[Airblade]]'': A PS2 skateboarding game which is basically ''[[Tony Hawk's Pro Skater|Tony Hawk]]'' without wheels. It's also got a story, but that's very much beside the point.
** And on that note, most of the actual ''[[Tony Hawk's Pro Skater|Tony Hawk]]'' games feature a hover board cheat that simply takes the wheels off your board. Also, unlockable character Iron Man in ''THUG'' rides a hoverboard anyway.
* ''[[Rayman|Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc]]'' featured one of these.
* ''[[Jazz Jackrabbit]]''
* ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' and the ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' series (where it is called a Jet Board) use them. In ''Jak and Daxter'', the hoverboard is used in several ''[[Tony Hawk's Pro Skater|Tony Hawk]]'' style missions where the player has to get a set number of points.
* Zell uses one in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' in a single scene, after which it's confiscated. Later however, when you're allowed into his room, one of the characters comments that he has another to which he replies he's got several.
* Appears both in ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'', sort of (more like a hover-motorbike), and weaponized in ''[[Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings]]''.
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* [[Q*bert]] has a few in every level.
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has this as a purchasable item. It is very useful at low levels.
== Tabletop games ==
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== Web Comics ==
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20121103094600/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=080401 this] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' strip, during a parody of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Torg "inherits" an enchanted serving dish that is essentially a hoverboard.
* Dave's brother from ''[[Homestuck]]'' has one.
== Web Original ==
* In Volume 3, Episode 1 of ''[[RWBY]]'' Reese Chloris of Team ABRN has a hoverboard -- [[Running Gag|that's also a gun]]. (Actually, it separates into a pair of pistols. When it's not being used as a projectile itself.)
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** The Overbike isn't a [[Completely Missing the Point|hoverbike]].
* The 1990s teenage version of ''[[Flash Gordon (2007 TV series)|Flash Gordon]]''.
* In ''[[Thundercats]]'', WilyKat and WilyKit have hover boards which are constantly getting demolished, to Panthro's chagrin. This is [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429001815/http://blogs.evtrib.com/nerdvana/files/2012/03/TCats_Ep14_Still_1.jpg resurrected] in [[Thundercats 2011|the 2011 reboot]].
* Manic the Hedgehog owns one in ''[[Sonic Underground]]''.
* ''[[Ratz]]'' has ratboards, which are basically flying racecars seemingly made out of looted mousetraps.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [http://gizmodo.com/5549271/a-real-working-hoverboard-exists It happened.] {{spoiler|But you can't stand on it. And it needs a special stand. Ain't life a bitch?}} It's also a [[Back to The Future]] replica.
* On the show ''[[
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