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A hovercraft was a type of vehicle in use on Earth.

When Benjamin Sisko was about four years old, his biological mother, Sarah Sisko, who had left him and his family, died in a hovercraft accident in Australia. Joseph Sisko never told his son this until 2375. (DS9: "Image in the Sand")

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The Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 276) described a vehicle first mentioned in DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin..." called a floater as a small hovercraft.

Hoverspeeder

Sarek riding a hoverspeeder

A deleted scene from Star Trek has Sarek riding in a vehicle that is described both as a hovercraft and a "hoverspeeder" in order to fetch Amanda Grayson when Nero attacked Vulcan.

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