Human-powered land vehicle

Many human-powered land vehicles can also be gravity-powered land vehicles, and vice versa, although some of the latter are quite awkward to use as the former. These include street luges, gravity racers, and snow boards.

Types of ground contact

There are four main ways to support the weight of a human-powered land vehicle and its contents: rolling contact as with wheels; sliding contact as with skates, skis, or runners; intermittent contact as with stilts; and no contact at all as with anything carried. Additionally, these four methods may be combined as in wheelbarrows.

Wheeled

The most common wheeled human-powered land vehicle is the bicycle in all its forms. Other notable examples include:

• Balance bicycles and dandy horses
• Handcars, and draisines
• Hotchkiss Bicycle Railroad and shweeb
• Inline skates, roller skates, roller skis and Roller shoe
• Kick scooters, kickbikes, knee scooters, and square scooters
• Rickshaws, prams, strollers, roller buggies and buggies/Shopping trolley (caddy)
• Skateboards, longboards, Penny boards, snakeboards, caster boards, Freeline skates, Surfskate (or Carveboard)
• Unicycles, Tricycles, quadracycles, and velomobiles
• Trikkes
• Wheelchairs
• Baby walkers

Sliding

• Skis, snowboard, snowskate
• Sleds
• Ice skates and clap skates
• Mud horses and mud sledges

Intermittent

• Stilts
• Powerbocking
• Pogo stick