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/ˈækwəpleɪn/ · noun
(originally US, water sports) A board on which a person stands to ride for leisure which is pulled on a water surface by a motorboat..
At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.
She waved her arm—a significant and imperative signal—but she realised, almost as she did it, that there was scant chance of any one aquaplaning at thirty or forty kilometres an hour looking to the right or to the left.
So much water. They were held up by it, the tyres skating over a film of rain. Aquaplaning. Flying his sister’s fancy car through the wet air. Touching nothing.
Use aquaplane when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Aquaplane means (originally US, water sports) A board on which a person stands to ride for leisure which is pulled on a water surface by a motorboat..
Common synonyms include hydroplane.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.
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