snowboarder

English

Etymology

From snowboard +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsnəʊˌbɔːdə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsnoʊˌbɔɹdɚ/

Noun

snowboarder (plural snowboarders)

1. Someone who snowboards.
   • 2008 January 25, Matt Higgins, “At X Games, One-Upmanship Is a Trend in High Places”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The same is true in freeskiing, in which skiers pull tricks on some of the same terrain as snowboarders.

   • 2022 February 4, John Branch, “U.S. snowboarder Jamie Anderson qualifies for the slopestyle final.”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     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.

Derived terms

• alpine snowboarder

Translations

someone who snowboards

• Czech: snowboardista (cs) m
• Dutch: snowboarder (nl) m, snowboardster f
• Finnish: lumilautailija (fi)
• French: planchiste (fr), snowboardeur (fr) m, snowboardeuse (fr) f
• German: Snowboarder (de) m, Snowboarderin (de) f; Snowboardfahrer (de) m, Snowboardfahrerin (de) f; (Switzerland) Snöber (de) m, Snöberin (de) f
• Malay: peluncur papan salji
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: snøbrettkjører m

• Polish: snowboardzista (pl) m, snowboardzistka (pl) f
• Romanian: snowboardist m, snowboardistă f
• Russian: сноуборди́ст (ru) m (snoubordíst), сноуборди́стка (ru) f (snoubordístka)
• Swedish: snowboardåkare c
• Welsh: eirafyrddiwr m

Spanish

Noun

snowboarder m or f by sense (plural snowboarders or snowboarder)

1. snowboarder