snowboarding

[ snoh-bawr-ding ]

noun

1. the sport of riding a snowboard:

   Snowboarding became an Olympic event in Nagano, Japan, in 1998.

Word History and Origins

Origin of snowboarding¹

First recorded in 1980–85; snowboard ( def ) + -ing ¹( def )

Example Sentences

But federal prosecutors alleged Thursday that Ryan Wedding had chosen a different path following his snowboarding career.

From Los Angeles Times

Luckily, Bowman’s snowboarding days are pretty much on hold.

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Thus the addition of skating, surfing and, before them, snowboarding.

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“The experiment seems to agree well,” said Frank Feng, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Missouri who was not involved with the paper, but studied similar motions in half-pipe snowboarding.

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Henry Zurkow was an honors student at the University of Colorado in Boulder, a mecca for two of his passions, mountaineering and snowboarding.

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