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.