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Snowboarding

Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive sport where the participant rides a board down a snow slope. The sport is involved in the winter olympics in several different specialized forms.

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Gap jump

Sports; Snowboarding

Simply a jump that has a void between the takeoff and landing areas.

Garland

Sports; Snowboarding

When a snowboarder turns to one side only, with downhill skidding, across the fall line. The resulting trail looks like a garland.

Giant slalom

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a timed race down a long course. The course has markers which are further apart then in regular slalom racing.

Fifty-fifth

Sports; Snowboarding

This is sliding and the snowboard is parallel to the coping.

Flat

Sports; Snowboarding

This is the flat part of the half-pipe.

Flat bottom

Sports; Snowboarding

The term used to describe the area in a half-pipe that is in-between the two opposite transitional walls.

Flatland

Sports; Snowboarding

An area of a slope that is flat. It can also describe tricks that are performed on a slope that does not have any obstacles.

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