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snowboarder en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈsnoʊˌbɔɹdɚ/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈsnəʊˌbɔːdə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sneygʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz Proto-West Germanic *snaiw Old English snāw Middle English snow English snow Proto-Germanic *burdą Proto-West Germanic *bord Old English bord Middle English bord English board English snowboard Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English snowboarder From snowboard + -er.

Meanings

1. Someone who snowboards.
   • Four years ago, the snowboarder Travis Rice was riding in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains when he accidentally invented the double cork, one of the more progressive and talked-about tricks in snowboarding recently. […] The same is true in freeskiing, in which skiers pull tricks on some of the same terrain as snowboarders. 2008 January 25, Matt Higgins, “At X Games, One-Upmanship Is a Trend in High Places”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
   • The very thing the 16 skiers and snowboarders had sought — fresh, soft snow — instantly became the enemy. Somewhere above, a pristine meadow cracked in the shape of a lightning bolt, slicing a slab nearly 200 feet across and 3 feet deep. Gravity did the rest. 2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013:
   • To Enni Rukajarvi, a Finnish snowboarder, the temperatures were not a problem — it was warmer than it often is at home, she pointed out — but the wind was tricky. 2022 February 4, John Branch, “U.S. snowboarder Jamie Anderson qualifies for the slopestyle final.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022:

Forms

Deriveds

alpine snowboarder

Translations (28)

fr snowboardeur (someone who snowboards) · pl snowboardzistka (someone who snowboards) · ko 스노보더 (someone who snowboards) · ro snowboardist (someone who snowboards) · de Snowboarder (someone who snowboards) · de Snöber (someone who snowboards) · ro snowboardistă (someone who snowboards) · de Snowboardfahrerin (someone who snowboards) · pl snowboardzista (someone who snowboards) · nb snøbrettkjører (someone who snowboards) · ms peluncur papan salji (someone who snowboards) · nl snowboardster (someone who snowboards) · cy eirafyrddiwr (someone who snowboards) · nl snowboarder (someone who snowboards) · sv snowboardåkare (someone who snowboards) · cs snowboardista (someone who snowboards) · fr planchiste (someone who snowboards) · de Snowboardfahrer (someone who snowboards) · uz snoubordchi (someone who snowboards) · ru сноуборди́стка (someone who snowboards) · az snoubordçu (someone who snowboards) · fa-ira اسنوبردسوار (someone who snowboards) · fr snowboardeuse (someone who snowboards) · de Snowboarderin (someone who snowboards) · ru сноуборди́ст (someone who snowboards) · fi lumilautailija (someone who snowboards) · de Snöberin (someone who snowboards) · ja スノーボーダー (someone who snowboards)