Meanings
- uncountableA recreational activity resembling snowboarding but performed on sand instead of snow.
It wasn’t until I was 29, and tried sandboarding for the first (and last) time, that I saw the beauty in being merely O.K. at something.
2007 July 15, Rebecca Zerkin, “Children’s Books”, in New York Times
Origin
Blend of sand + snowboarding.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Spanish sandboard, sandboarding
- sandboardactivity resembling snowboarding but performed on sand
- sandboardingactivity resembling snowboarding but performed on sand
Cite this entry
sandboarding. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sandboarding
“sandboarding.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sandboarding. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sandboarding,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sandboarding.
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