snowboarder

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UK/ˈsnəʊˌbɔːdə/US/ˈsnoʊˌbɔɹdɚ/

noun

Someone who snowboards.

Meanings

nounsnowboarder (plural snowboarders)

plural snowboarders

  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
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    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

Origin

  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.

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Translations

Czech snowboardista
  • snowboardistasomeone who snowboards
Dutch snowboarder, snowboardster
  • snowboardersomeone who snowboards
  • snowboardstersomeone who snowboards
Finnish lumilautailija
  • lumilautailijasomeone who snowboards
French snowboardeur, snowboardeuse
  • snowboardeursomeone who snowboards
  • snowboardeusesomeone who snowboards
  • planchistesomeone who snowboards
German Snowboarder, Snowboarderin
  • Snowboardersomeone who snowboards
  • Snowboarderinsomeone who snowboards
  • Snowboardfahrersomeone who snowboards
  • Snowboardfahrerinsomeone who snowboards
  • Snöbersomeone who snowboards
  • Snöberinsomeone who snowboards
Japanese スノーボーダー
  • スノーボーダー (sunōbōdā)someone who snowboards
Korean 스노보더
  • 스노보더 (seunobodeo)someone who snowboards
Malay peluncur papan salji
  • peluncur papan saljisomeone who snowboards
Norwegian Bokmål snøbrettkjører
  • snøbrettkjørersomeone who snowboards
Polish snowboardzista, snowboardzistka
  • snowboardzistasomeone who snowboards
  • snowboardzistkasomeone who snowboards
Romanian snowboardist, snowboardistă
  • snowboardistsomeone who snowboards
  • snowboardistăsomeone who snowboards
Russian сноуборди́ст, сноуборди́стка
  • сноуборди́ст (snoubordíst)someone who snowboards
  • сноуборди́стка (snoubordístka)someone who snowboards
Swedish snowboardåkare
  • snowboardåkaresomeone who snowboards
Welsh eirafyrddiwr
  • eirafyrddiwrsomeone who snowboards
Cite this entry
APA

snowboarder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snowboarder

MLA

“snowboarder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snowboarder. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “snowboarder,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snowboarder.

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