Glideboards are a common form of personal transportation, often utalised by younger people due to the inherent danger associated with travelling at the speeds these boards are capable of with no meaningful protection from impact.

Boards usually leave a glowing trail from their propulsion jets (called the 'exhaust glow'), which are powered with medium-scale sun-cores, a scaled down version of the kinds that one might have in a car or motorcycle. These trails can be tinted different colours using a coloured crystal that slots into the mechanism near the jets.

Often, people have 'project boards' that they progressively kit out, enhance, upgrade and decorate. They're roughly as common as bicycles in the actual world, and the mechanically inclined grow up tinkering and fixing up their boards. Sometimes, people have a show-board and a regular board that they might use for getting around (think of a daily driver in car terms).

Glideboards are efficient for in-atmosphere traversal but are also capable of being used in a vacuum. This means, technically, they can be used in open space with no problem, assuming that they are made of materials that do not grow brittle in the cold of space.