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'''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]].

The characteristic that determines whether you have a [[Hover Board]] or are [[Sky Surfing]] is the altitude range each has. A [[Hover Board]] has to stay within a certain distance of the ground. In [[Sky Surfing]], the vehicle can be used at any altitude.

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.

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== Literature ==

* Scott Westerfeld's ''[[Uglies]]'' series features these quite prominently.

** Uglies play around with them recreationally -- they really can't hurt themselves because the boards are magnetic and adhere to the magnetic grid underneath the city, and they wear a device to track their center of gravity and special "crash bracelets" that will pull them back onto the board if they fall off.

*** Interestingly, the center-of-gravity device clips onto their belly-button rings, a fact that the characters all seem to take for granted. Apparently belly-button piercings are mandatory for young people in the utopian/dystopian future.

** Pretties generally can't ride hoverboards due to their reduced reflexes {{spoiler|caused by the brain lesions that come with the operation}}. Zane and Tally, however, are able to ride hoverboards as pretties when they consciously try to "stay bubbly" and {{spoiler|fight the influence of the lesions}}.

** When Tally is sent to perform her undercover mission in ''Uglies'' she is given a special hoverboard that has lifter fans that enable it to function away from magnetic substances for a period of time and solar cells to provide power for the fans. This type of hoverboard is later used by the Cutters when they turn into Specials.

** In ''Extras'' hoverboarding is again presented as a recreational activity. It's actually the extreme hoverboard-riding known as "mag-lev surfing" (in which participants use their hoverboards' magnetic properties to surf atop a mag-lev train outside the city) practiced by the clique known as the Sly Girls that attracts Aya to them and gets the plot rolling.

* One of the Sinthians, slug-like aliens in the ''[[Phule's Company]]'' series by Robert Asprin, solves his mobility problems by riding a kid's "glideboard". The other main Sinthian character, who is from a higher caste, can't get the hang of the board and declares it undignified.

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** One gear in the "board" category is actually ''called'' the Hoverboard (well, Hovercraft). It looks like a cloud.

* ''[[Kirby]]'''s Air Ride.

** One of them, Dragoon, appears as an item in ''[[Super Smash Bros]] Brawl''.

** One of them, Dragoon, appears as an item in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl''.

* ''[[Super Paper Mario]]''

* ''Kid Chameleon''