2008, Scott Westerfeld, Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies, p. Page 7:
The most common wish I hear from Uglies fans is that someone would get busy inventing a hoverboard.
2007, Phillip Marcus, Unreal Tournament III:
While any Hoverboard user can grapple onto a friendly vehicle, there is a limit to the number of players that can grapple onto a vehicle.
2006, Judy Katschke, Trollz: Magic Of The Five, p. 52:
She trudged down the block with her hoverboard tucked under her arm.
2004, Forbes, Volume 173, p. 176:
Sony will bring out a game where your motions control a 3-D character on a hoverboard.
2003, S.P. Somtow, Do Comets Dream?, p. 172:
Anim es-Navik had already jettisoned his hoverboard, pushing against its flexible surface to perform a death-defying catapult onto the first rung of the nearest ladder.
1994, Soma Vira, Planet Keepers: Lord Kito's Revenge, p. 188:
Erasing all traces of her research on her blinking screen, she logged off, slipped down her perch, found a hoverboard, and gliding slowly, thoughtfully, toward the Recapture Room.
1990, Motion Picture Annual 1990, p. 25:
Fox outwits the punkish Wilson and his gang, eluding them via a Mattel hoverboard when they give chase, and thereby saving the McFly name.
1989, Frederick S. Clarke, Cinefantastique, Volumes 20-21, p. 49:
For the hoverboard chase, stunt performers were suspended in harness rigs from a Chapman crane.