snowboarder

What it means

1. Someone who snowboards.

   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

   2 more examples

   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

In a sentence

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

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Indo-European*sneygʷʰ-
2. Proto-Indo-European*snóygʷʰos
3. Proto-Germanic*snaiwaz
4. Proto-West Germanic*snaiw
5. Old Englishsnāw
6. Middle Englishsnow
7. Englishsnow
8. Proto-Germanic*burdą
9. Proto-West Germanic*bord
10. Old Englishbord
11. Middle Englishbord
12. Englishboard
13. Englishsnowboard
14. Englishsnowboarder

From snowboard + -er.