Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

snowboarding

/ˈsnoʊbɔɹdɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.15 in modern English

Syllables: snow-board-ing
IPA: /ˈsnoʊbɔɹdɪŋ/

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The sport of sliding downhill on a snowboard.

Uncountable

verb

present participle and gerund of snowboard

Example Sentences

"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."

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈsnoʊbɔɹdɪŋ/
British English: /ˈsnəʊbɔːdɪŋ/

Usage

Uncountable

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Sports.

Derived Forms

parasnowboarding sandboarding

Phrases

alpine snowboarding volcano boarding

Frequently Paired Words

skiing wakeboarding surfing

Synonyms

snurfing

Questions

How do you pronounce snowboarding?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsnoʊbɔɹdɪŋ/.
What does snowboarding mean?: The sport of sliding downhill on a snowboard.

How to pronounce snowboarding

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