Flyboard

[ flahy-bawrd ]

Trademark.

1. a brand of hydroflight device consisting of a small board or platform designed for a single rider and attached by a long hose to a personal watercraft, whose water jet provides the thrust for the board to rise into the air and fly around under the rider’s control.

verb (used without object)

1. Usually flyboard. to engage in the sport of hydroflight using a Flyboard or a similar device:

   On our vacation I flyboarded and ziplined for the first time.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Flyboard¹

First recorded in 2010–15; fly ²( def ) + board ( def )

Example Sentences

In video footage posted to social media, Mr Zapata can be seen rising in a spin onboard his invention, before seemingly losing control of the flyboard and spiralling into the lake.

From BBC

The French inventor Franky Zapata has been injured after his homemade jetpack, called a flyboard, crashed into a lake in the town of Biscarrosse.

From BBC

Gliding above the water on what he calls a Flyboard Air, Mr. Zapata took about 22 minutes to cover the roughly 20 miles that separate Sangatte, in northern France, from St. Margaret’s Bay, just east of Dover, in southern England.

From New York Times

Franky Zapata reached speeds of 110 mph to complete the 22-mile journey on his flyboard that began in Sangatte -- in France's Pas de Calais region -- and ended in St. Margaret's Bay, beyond the white cliffs of Dover, in southeast England.

From Fox News

Zapata invented the Flyboard in 2011, a device that uses a water jet to propel the rider through the air behind a boat.

From The Verge