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snowboarder

snowboarder

11 2.3
A person who rides a snowboard down snowy slopes for sport or fun
  • noun
  • /ˈsnoʊˌbɔːrdər/
  • UK
translation icon : snowboarder
  • With uncharacteristically warm weather, Spirit Mountain has scrapped plans to welcome its first skiers and snowboarders of the season on Thanksgiving Day.
  • a professional snowboarder
  • an avid snowboarder
  • an Olympic snowboarder

And it was all my friends at the time were either artists in Hollywood, surfers or snowboarders.

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Examples

  • I was no longer afraid of not getting paid to be a pro snowboarder.

    Blog text (3)

  • There are about 11 skiers here this semester, 5 skateboarders, and 7 snowboarders.

    Blog text (7)

  • Snowboarder magazine voted him Best Big Mountain Snowboarder of the Year nine times.

    Blog text (3)

  • The world's best snowboarder is on the cover.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • I just know that I'm going to be a famous snowboarder.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • "There is no longer anywhere in the world that I consider too hard to get to," says big-mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones.

    Blog text (3)

  • So I'm a big snowboarder fan and every winter I spend almost all my weekends up in Lake Tahoe.

  • The small town of Glacier attracts skiers and snowboarders, with Mount Baker just a short drive away.

    Blog text (28)

  • The present study used an experimental design with a sample of five elite snowboarders, who comprised the Spanish Olympic Snowboard Team that competed in the modality of half-pipe in Salt Lake City in 2002.

    Academic text (2005)

  • The snowboarder effortlessly carved through the fresh powder on the slope.

Surface Forms

snowboarder singular
snowboarders plural

Morphology

snowboarder = snowboard (transparent) = snow + board + er

The agent noun is directly formed from the base noun 'snowboard' with the standard suffix '-er'.

Etymology

Snowboarder is made from the simple parts snow, board and the ending -er ('one who'), so the word pictures a 'board' used on 'snow', like a surfer's board on water. That's why a snowboarder is someone who rides a snowboard down snow-covered slopes.