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{{trope}}
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A form of [[Not Quite Flight]] in which the flyer stands ''on top'' of the object with the relative propulsion mechanisms and control surfaces. While the rider is usually the one in control, all the work is done by whatever he's standing on. The difference between riding a [[Hover Board]] and
Despite the name, the flying vehicle in question is not necessarily surfboard-shaped.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Tekkaman Blade]]'' often rode on the back of his robot Pegus. In ''[[Tekkaman Blade]] II'', Vesna, Sommer, and Hiver had dedicated ships (with their own pilots) to ride on, and Aki, once but an angsty love interest, has her own Pegas II (for the same reason - she's an artificial Tekkaman and needs a Pegas to transform).
* ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' has lifting, a form of Sky Surfing using special boards to ride strange atmospheric particles called trapars, {{spoiler|which are really the thought energy of the intelligent coral covering the planet}}... [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]? Anyways, Lifting is also used as a flight mechanism for their [[Humongous Mecha]].
** If it's not awesome enough, their surfboards leave energy trails that can slice through armor.
*** Did we mention the trails are luminescent green/yellow and look like splashing waves?
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* In ''[[Shaman King]]'', the Ainu shaman and snowboarder Horohoro uses his magic to create an ever-present avalance of snow and ice under his snowboard to fly. Might be closer to a [[Hover Board]] in that there presumably is a limit to how ''high'' he can make the snow go.
** This is very similar to how Iceman of the ''[[X-Men]]'' often travels, though he just stands on the ice he creates. Neither of them seems to worry about what happens with all that frozen water ''after'' they've been passing through...
* [[Dragon Ball|Son Goku]] and his Flying Nimbus.
** Tao Pai Pai's preferred method of travel was to hurl a log towards his destination, leap on top of it, and ride it into the horizon.
* The titular character of ''[[Mahou Shoujo Tai Alice]]'' combines this with the standard [[Flying Broomstick]].
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* [[Digimon Tamers]] has Gallantmon with Grani.
* ''[[Maken-ki!]]'' has the [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Yamato Ouken}} ride on a rock he threw in one of the recent chapters.
* In ''[[Rental Magica]]'' Adilicia, as the star in Solomon's school of magic and a show-off prefers to ride [http://kisaragi.animeblogger.net/images/Rental%20Magica/rental_magica_10_05.png on the back] of [[Ars Goetia|Forneus]].
* ''[[Kinnikuman]]'': Kinnikuman Zebra weaponizes this trope with his Muscle Inferno technique. He rides upon his foe like a surfboard and forces them to crash into a wall face-first.
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* [[Mister Miracle]] uses a pair of discs under his feet that allow him to fly.
** So did Eppy Thatcher, the fourth [[Grendel]], until he developed a more advanced (and grisly) method: micro-levitation devices he surgically implanted in the soles of his feet. Not sure if those also count as this trope or not...
** If that counts, then so do [[The Flash|the Trickster]]'s "air-walker shoes".
* The [[
** Another [[Jack Kirby|Kirby]] creation, The Black Racer of the [[New Gods]], flew through the cosmos on ''skis''.
* ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' villains Green Goblin and Hobgoblin with their Goblin Glider.
** Plus female Goblin Fury in ''[[Spider-Girl]]''... and Spider-Girl herself, for a while.
** Not to mention Jack O' Lantern, aka Jack Macendale, on a disk-shaped glider.
* ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' has had several storylines based around sky-surfing, mostly centered around the (highly illegal) [[Wacky Racing|Supersurf tournaments]].
* ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers: Initiative]]'' introduced Cloud 9, a mutant(?) girl who flies/surfs on a cloud like substance she can control.
* During the [[Keith Giffen]] era of the ''[[Justice League of America]]'', the JL fought the Scarlet Skier; the herald of the cosmic decorator Mr Nebula (a parody of the Silver Surfer and Galactus).
* A cartoon by [[Charles Addams]], [[Gahan Wilson]], or somebody along the same line showed some witches arriving at a coven meeting riding their broomsticks this way. They're described by another witch as "the beach crowd" or "the Malibu crowd."▼
== Films ==
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* Jim Hawkins of ''[[Treasure Planet]]'' has solar surfing, fitting with all the other [[Space Sailing|flying boats]] in the movie. It gets him into trouble with the law in the very beginning{{spoiler|, but it makes an excellent [[Chekhov's Skill]].}}
▲== Live Action TV ==
* "[[Power Rangers in Space|Galaxy Gliders, hang ten!]]"
* Apollo from ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' uses a flying board to get around.
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* A cartoon by [[Charles Addams]], [[Gahan Wilson]], or somebody along the same line{{verify}} showed some witches arriving at a coven meeting riding their broomsticks this way. They're described by another witch as "the beach crowd" or "the Malibu crowd."
== Tabletop Games ==
* Dark Eldar Hellions in ''[[Warhammer
* The Skyblade Personal Transport in ''[[Exalted]]''.
== Toys ==
* ''[[Bionicle]]'''s Toa Lhikan had two fire-swords which could unite to form a shield, and that shield in turn doubled as an instrument well-suited for sky surfing.
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'', Dante surfs on a missile
** [[Cutscene Power to the Max|As does]] Solid Snake in [[Metal Gear]] Solid: The Twin Snakes''
* Temjin in the ''[[Virtual On]]'' series gained this as a special attack in the second game. It becomes his most powerful attack in ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha]] 3'' and ''[[Super Robot Wars K]]''.
* At the climax of ''[[Metal Wolf Chaos]]'', Michael surfs an [[Incendiary Exponent|exploding space station]] to Earth while wearing a [[Humongous Mecha]] [[Powered Armour]]. I'd say but for this game, it's pretty much par for the course.
* ''[[Kirby]]'' sometimes rides upon his Warp Star like this, especially in the [[Kirby:
* Rush Jet allows ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' to skysurf on the back of his ''dog.''
** The Balloon Adapter in ''[[Rock Man 4 Minus Infinity]]'' lets him do the same thing and it is based on the Rush Jet from Mega Man 3, but with a very high weapon energy cost.
* The "boards" in ''[[
* [[Touhou Project|Rikako Asakura]] has some sort of rocket jet ski, because she can't fly. Presumably, she built it herself.
** It's implied she ''can'' fly, but she'd rather use science than magic to do so. [[Science Versus Magic|This is why she's the heretic of Gensokyo.]]
** Marisa Kirisame is sometimes portrayed as "surfing" on her [[Flying Broomstick]].
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'', all three protagonists can turn their Keyblade into a vehicle, but Ven's is the only one that really fits this.
* In several ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' games (and several adaptations), Tails will fly a biplane and Sonic will stand on the wings. Sonic also does this with certain objects, such as the tops in Marble Garden Zone.
* Exploiting physics glitches allows you to pull this off with ordinary wooden pallets and... small, plastic buckets in ''[[Half-Life 2]]'', which is used big time in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20110709060355/http://speeddemosarchive.com/HalfLife2.html speedrun].
* ''[[Champions Online]]'' has more than one such power. One summons chunks of earth (or cloud, if you do it while falling), another summons a chunk of ice, and yet another summons an actual technological glider disk. The newest ones include a magic carpet and a cloud with a rainbow trail.
* While not technically flying, the Anchoring ability in [[S4 League]] allows you to shoot a grappling chain to any surface and then zip their on a board. Since this can be done in midair, arenas with enough tall buildings will let you zoom from one end to the other without touching the ground.
* [[Gravity Master|Layle]] of ''[[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Crystal Bearers]]'' does this during the final battle.
== Web Comics ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090217154228/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=48&issue=11 This] scene from ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''. Yes, [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|a Ninja Doctor Astronaut Sky Surfing a Robot Vampire]] back down to earth.
* In ''[[Kid Radd]]'', the titular Radd had the powerup in his original game, and as he absorbed some code from the sequel, he got the infinite rocket board cheat.
* Although called "hover boards", the boards used by SUEPR in ''[[City of Reality]]'' are actually utilizing this trope since they appear able to fly at any altitude.
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [
** [
* Bro in ''[[Homestuck]]'' (as well as his Alpha Universe counterpart) has a rocket board.
== Web Original ==
* Used in [[Becoming a Better Writer|The Wolf's Will]] for the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Wind]] [http://becomingabetterwriter.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/the-wolfs-will-scene-011/ Surfers]
* Riptide's cloud-board in the [[Whateley Universe]]. Built especially to use her powers by Bugs, it's a flight board that uses Riptide's aquakineitc powers to fly, and it generates a tint cloud around itself while Riptide 'surfs' on it.
== Western Animation ==
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** Early in the original comic (and the cartoon), Static would fly by magnetically levitating a convenient piece of metal. He preferred manhole covers and hubcaps, but he would set aside his embarassment and ride a ''garbage can'' in a pinch.
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' : Finished as a villain tutor, Shego calls up a flying rocket-powered skyboard in her signature colours and dives onto it from a helicopter. That's how to leave your job in style...
* The zipboards from ''[[
** Taken to the logical end with Ray Tracer, who uses an actual surfboard ala [[Silver Surfer]].
* In ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', Jetfire transforms and rides Jetstorm when making their initial attack on Prowl and Bulkhead.
** In ''[[Beast Wars]]'', Optimus Primal's Transmetal form is a <s> munky</s> ape on a hoverboard, so he did this more than a few times in the show.
* In ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', the "Royal Flush" villain group flies on giant playing cards. Spellbinder, another villain, has his own mechanical device to fly on as well, although it's more spherical than board-shaped.
== Other ==
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