Can I use "aboard" with any type of transportation either public or personal?

[khauff85]

Can I use "aboard" with any type of transportation either public or personal?

Can I use "aboard" with any type of transportation either public or personal?

aboard the bike
aboard the bicycle
aboard the tricycle
aboard the horse
aboard the donkey
aboard the boat
aboard the hot air balloon
aboard the space shuttle
aboard the submarine
aboard the army tank
aboard the surf board
aboard the jet ski

If there is/are wrong, please let me now Why?

 

[J&K Tutoring]

Re: Can I use "aboard" with any type of transportation either public or personal?

We could use aboard for all of them, especially in a humorous or ironic context, but mostly we use aboard for ships/boats and for conveyances evolved from ships. Mostly, we are:

on a bike/bicycle/tricycle (variants of the same thing)
on a horse/donkey
aboard a boat (or on a boat)
aboard a hot air balloon or, oddly, in a hot air balloon. Of course we are not actually inside the balloon itself but we are in the attached basket.
aboard the space shuttle
aboard a submarine
in an army tank (mostly we think of being inside)
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aboard the surf board​

'aboard a board' sounds odd, so we are on a surfboard
​

aboard the jet ski​

We might think this machine is related to a boat because it goes on water, but really, its more related to a motorcycle, so we are on a jet ski.​

 

[Rover_KE]

Re: Can I use "aboard" with any type of transportation either public or personal?

Can I use "aboard" with any type of transportation — either public or personal?

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If [STRIKE]there is/[/STRIKE] they are wrong, please let me know [STRIKE]Why?[/STRIKE] why. [It's not a question.]

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[khauff85]

Re: Can I use "aboard" with any type of transportation either public or personal?

and what about?

aboard any kind of car (own car, taxi, limousine)
aboard the truck
aboard construction equipments (loader, grater, compactors)
aboard the metro
aboard the carriage (pulled by a person or animals like cows or horses).
aboard the rickshaw (Indian taxi)
aboard the helicopter
aboard the glider
aboard the blimp
aboard any combat aircrafts

 

[J&K Tutoring]

Re: Can I use "aboard" with any type of transportation either public or personal?

no, no, no, maybe, no, no, yes, yes, yes, yes

 

[Rover_KE]

Re: Can I use "aboard" with any type of transportation either public or personal?

khauff85,

We recommend posting a question on one forum only initially. If you do not get a satisfactory answer from that forum and you feel that you have exhausted its possibilities, then of course trying a different forum might help. It is only courteous however, to tell the second forum that you have already asked the question on another forum and then give a precis of the answers you received there, or provide a link to it, along with an explanation of why you are now looking elsewhere.

(emsr2d2)

I'm closing this thread as it's been adequately covered in at least two forums.