Snowboard Glossary
- 360 - when a rider performs a complete circle in the air when they jump.
- Air - when the whole board leaves the ground.
- Airdog - a snowboarder who does many jumps.
- Back county - off-piste.
- Bail - crashing or falling over.
- Battleship - a rail in a snowboarding park which rises up, flattens out, and then falls back down.
- Beef - wipe-out
- Bingo - when you do three 360s in a row.
- Bomb - accelerating fast downhill.
- Botwoker - a new snowboarder who has difficulty staying upright.
- Carve - to move from one side to the other.
- Chatter - when the snowboard vibrates for no reason when being ridden.
- Cruiser run - relaxed, mellow or easy run.
- Deck - top of both sides of a hale pipe
- Face plant - when a rider falls face first into the snow.
- Fall line - the most direct run down a slope.
- Flail - riding badly/out of control.
- Fraggle - when two snowboarders have an accident.
- Gaffer - term used to denote a skier.
- Gnarley - awesome.
- Grommet - a young snowboarder.
- Handy Dandy - person who is carving all over the place.
- Monkey Trail - off-piste trail.
- Nose manual - to ride with the tail of the board off the ground.
- Ollie - lifting both the nose and the tail (i.e. the whole board) off the ground at the same time.
- One-footy - riding with only one foot in the binding.
- Plank - snowboard.
- Pow pow - fresh powder.
- Powder puff - someone who loves riding powder.
- Rippin flake - general term used to describe snowboarding.
- Sick - exceptionally good.
- Skating - when the rider uses one of their feet to push.
- Slay - to do an exceptional trick.
- Spray - powder that flies up when you land on a jump.
- Stoked - psyched.
- Stomp - to make a good landing after a jump/trick.
- Switch - riding backwards or the opposite way to normal, e.g. goofy to regular.
- Wack - something that is not good.
- Wish bone - snowboard.