airboarding

/ ˈɛəˌbɔːdɪŋ /

noun

1. a snow sport in which participants slide down slopes headfirst lying flat on an inflatable board

Example Sentences

By airboarding, similar to sledding on an inflatable raft, riders can reach up to 60 miles per hour on downhill runs.

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Seek more novelty at Montage Mountain Resorts in Scranton, Pa. The ski area claims to have the largest airboarding program in the country.

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Another option, if you are willing to embrace the winter — and brave the roads — is to head north, to Vermont, where you can wear your kids out on skis and snowboards, while you perhaps make an attempt at airboarding, a relatively new winter sport that involves sliding down a mountain trail on a raftlike device.

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“I’m not doing that, no way,” my husband, Sandy, said when I told him I was going to check out airboarding with our 12-year-old son, Alex, and his friend, Bryce, 13, during our weeklong stay at Smugglers’ Notch here in early February.

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Airboarding is also becoming big with “thrill seekers and the young at heart” at terrain parks like the one at Canaan Valley Resort in West Virginia, said Joseph Darmofalski, the resort’s snow sports director.

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