English word senses marked with topical category "Snowboarding"

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Total 110 word senses

• Cab (Noun) A type of aerial spin; a switch frontside rotation.
• Cascade concrete (Noun) Wet, heavy and often sticky snow, which makes skiing and snowboarding difficult.
• GS (Noun) Initialism of giant slalom.
• Haakon flip (Noun) An aerial maneuver performed in a half-pipe by taking off backwards, and performing an inverted 720° rotation.
• JNS (Noun) Abbreviation of jump not scored. (a score on a scoresheet, for an insufficient/incomplete judged jump)
• PGS (Noun) Initialism of parallel giant slalom.
• PSL (Noun) Initialism of parallel slalom.
• air (Noun) The state of being briefly airborne during a jump.
• alley oop (Adjective) Involving at least a 180-degree turn.
• alpine snowboard (Noun) A snowboard variant used in alpine snowboarding. A narrow snowboard, with one upturned front tip and a tail, appearing similar to an extremely wide ski. Unlike a normal snowboard, both bindings on alpine boards are angled to mount boots angling forward, and have bindings similar to ski bindings, to mount snowboard boots similar to ski boots; although the binding mounting locations are similar to r…
• big air (Noun) A discipline in freestyle skiing and snowboarding, involving sliding down a large launch ramp and then launching off a big kicker, to obtain height and time in the air to perform acrobatic maneuvers, and land on a landing slope.
• bluntslide (Noun) A snowboarding trick in which, at the end of a jump, the snowboard lands on its tail.
• boardercross (Noun) Synonym of snowboard cross
• boardslide (Noun) A slide trick, where the boarder balances the snowboard at its centre, between the two boot bindings, and slides along the width of the board.
• boned (Adjective) Having the legs straightened during a trick.
• bonk (Verb) To hit something with the front of the board, especially in midair.
• bunny slope (Noun) A ski area with a gentle slope, usually used for novice skiers or snowboarders.
• bust (Verb) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
• buttcheck (Noun) The act of putting one's behind down to check a fall, while staying sliding along the snow on the snowboard.
• buttcheck (Verb) To put one's behind down to check a fall, while staying sliding along the snow on the snowboard.
• butter (Verb) To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with then end of a butterknife.
• butter (Verb) To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with then end of a butterknife.; To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow
• buttered (Adjective) Pertaining to the action of to butter, buttering; Of a turn, having used the to butter action to instantiate the turn.
• buttering (Noun) The action of the verb to butter; The action of a rider having to butter in an acrobatic maneuver.
• buttering (Noun) The action of the verb to butter; The action of a rider having to butter in an acrobatic maneuver.; The action of turning with only the tips (tail or nose) of skis or snowboards
• carve (Verb) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
• carving (Verb) Executing turns without pivoting.
• champagne powder (Noun) Powdery snow.
• chicken salad air (Noun) A trick in which the boarder reaches the trailing hand back between the legs and grabs the heel edge of the board between the feet.
• cork (Noun) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
• cork (Verb) To perform such a maneuver.
• cork (Adjective) Having the property of a head over heels rotation.
• crater (Verb) To crash or fall.
• crossboned (Adjective) Having the back leg boned while the front hand holds part of the foot
• crud (Noun) A heavy wet snow on which it is difficult to travel.
• double grab (Noun) A trick that involves grabbing the board, skis, or motorbike with both hands during a jump
• eggflip (Noun) A variation of an eggplant in which the rider flips over to reenter the halfpipe instead of doing a 180
• eggplant (Noun) A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall
• fakie (Noun) The riding backwards of the board, in the opposite stance.
• fall line (Noun) The imaginary line downhill that something falling downhill would naturally follow.
• fifty-fifty (Noun) Ellipsis of fifty-fifty slide; a rail slide where the snowboard is longitudinally aligned with the direction of the slide, down the centerline.
• funbox (Noun) A feature of a skatepark consisting of a tabletop connected to ramps and sometimes other features.
• geschmozzle (Noun) A style of race in which the skiers or snowboarders all start together.
• giant slalom (Noun) An Alpine snowboarding discipline derived from the skiing discipline.
• goofy (Adjective) Riding with the right foot forward.
• goofy (Noun) One who rides with the right foot forward.
• grom (Noun) A young surfer, wakeskater, wakeboarder, snowboarder, skimboarder, skateboarder, or kiteboarder.
• grommet (Noun) A young or inexperienced surfer, skateboarder, or snowboarder.
• half-pipe (Noun) A structure used to perform tricks, approximately semicircular in cross-section, resembling the bottom half of a cylinder lying down.
• heel turn (Noun) A turn executed by shifting weight on to the heel(s).
• heelside (Noun) the side of the board nearest the heel.
• highback (Noun) Part of a boot binding that extends from the back of the foot to cover the lower leg.
• huck (Noun) A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice.
• hucking (Noun) The action of to huck; The practice of making big jumps (off precipices).
• jump ramp (Noun) A ramp used to be jumped from, and do tricks on the skates/board/skis/bike etc.
• klister (Noun) A soft wax used for grip on skis, especially for corn snow or crust.
• knuckle (Noun) The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
• knuckle (Verb) To land on the knuckle (sense 9) of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.
• layback (Noun) A trick where the boarder leans back while on the lip of the ramp, or down a rail.
• liftie (Noun) A person who helps novices on and off of a skilift
• lipslide (Noun) A manoeuvre in which the board slides along a structure on its front or back lip
• method (Noun) Ellipsis of method air..
• method air (Noun) A trick where the boarder grabs the heel edge of the board with their front hand, between their feet, and then pulls the board towards their back, while arching their back and bending knees.
• misty flip (Noun) An off-axis backside 540° rotation performed in freestyle sports such as snowboarding, skateboarding, and trampolining.
• nollie (Noun) A variation of the ollie where the rider uses the front foot to pop the nose down and the back foot to scrape backwards to achieve lift off of the ground.
• ollie (Noun) An aerial maneuver in which one catches air by leaping off the ground with the skateboard and into the air.
• one foot (Noun) A trick with one foot free from the bindings; instead it is placed beside the rear binding and boned far away from the board during airtime.
• planker (Noun) A skier.
• plowing (Verb) riding with neither foot leading, with the stick perpendicular to the fall line; not goofy nor regular.
• powder monkey (Noun) A skier or snowboarder who avidly seeks out the “powder” (light, dry, fluffy snow).
• pregrab (Noun) A trick where the performer grabs their board/ski prior to a jump, instead of after the take-off, and keeps grabbing onto their device for as long as the trick requires.
• quarter-pipe (Noun) A structure used to perform tricks, approximately half the size of a half-pipe, similar in appearance to having a quarter of a circle in cross-section, with the middle of that quarter as the bottom.
• quarter-pipe (Noun) A ramp, one side of a halfpipe
• ragdoll (Verb) To be flung about, such that a person or character has an appearance like that of a rag doll that is flung about.
• regular (Adjective) Riding with the left foot forward.
• shred (Verb) To cut through (snow, water, etc.) swiftly with one's snowboard, surfboard, etc.; (by extension) to move or ride along (a road, track, etc.) aggressively and rapidly.
• shred (Verb) To travel swiftly using a snowboard, surfboard, or vehicle.
• sidecountry (Noun) An off-piste terrain
• sideslipper (Noun) a staff member on a halfpipe who reshapes the slope to keep the halfpipe usable, through sideslipping, shaving on the sides aboard their snowboards
• slackcountry (Noun) An off-piste terrain
• slopestyle (Noun) A discipline of freestyle skiing or snowboarding involving an obstacle course.
• snowboard cross (Noun) A downhill snowboard race over obstacles with many simultaneous racers.
• snowboarder (Noun) Someone who snowboards.
• snowboarding (Noun) The sport of sliding downhill on a snowboard.
• snowrut (Noun) A long line that forms an indentation in the snow.
• snurfing (Noun) The sport snowboarding
• stomp pad (Noun) A snowboard component for use removing snow from the bottoms of boots. Typically a metal or plastic plate, attached to the top of the snowboard between the bindings.
• straightlining (Noun) skiing or snowboarding downhill rapidly
• superpipe (Noun) A large halfpipe, used in certain gravity-based extreme sports such as snowboarding and freestyle skiing
• switch (Adjective) Pertaining to riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.
• tailgrab (Noun) The act of reaching down and grabbing the tail of the board while in the air, typically during a jump or an ollie.
• terrain park (Noun) An area in a park type setting, often within a ski resort, designed for snowboarding or sometimes skiing and typically containing features such as ramps and rails for sliding on.
• toe edge (Noun) The sharp edge on the long side of a snowboard closest to one's toes, regardless of which way one if facing (up-mountain or down-mountain) or riding (goofy or regular).
• toe touch (Noun) Any of a plethora of different aerial tricks where one touches the top of one's feet.
• toeside (Noun) the side of the board nearest the toe.
• underflip (Noun) An acrobatic maneuver, initiated while in mid-air, performing a backflip by flicking one's head back over one shoulder, making the body flip underneath the board or skis.
• wicket (Noun) A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
• yard-sale (Adjective) Pertaining to a yardsale (bad crash).
• 1 (Noun) Clipping of 180. (180° spin)
• 10 (Noun) Clipping of 1080. (1080° spin)
• 12 (Noun) Clipping of 1260. (1260° spin)
• 14 (Noun) Clipping of 1440. (1440° spin)
• 16 (Noun) Clipping of 1620. (1620° spin)
• 18 (Noun) Clipping of 1800. (1800° spin)
• 19 (Noun) Clipping of 1980. (1980° spin)
• 1980 (Noun) A skill, where in a jump, the person turns 5 and a half times.
• 3 (Noun) Clipping of 360. (360° spin)
• 5 (Noun) Clipping of 540. (540° spin)
• 7 (Noun) Clipping of 720. (720° spin)
• 9 (Noun) Clipping of 900. (900° spin)

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