Nutcracker Ski Club

snowriding: (n) A new winter recreation industry term describing the act of either snowboarding or snow skiing down a slope. (Submitted by: Roberta Stjernholm, of Lakewood, Colo.)

In February Ski Utah and Winter at Westminster held a contest, together with on line dictionary, The Addictionary, called the 2008 Ski/Snowboard Lingo Contest. The challenge was to formulate a new catchword that replaces the term “Skiing and Snowboarding”.

First prize was a spring ski trip to Utah, second prize a two lift tickets to The Canyons Resort plus ten t-shirts featuring the best new ski and snowboard werd of 2008.

Runner up words included boardskiing, skoarding and sloping.

Here are some other new terms that might catch on:

gnardonculous: (a) gnarulous and ridonculous. (Submitted by Andrew Howard Johnson, Stamford, Conn.) Gnardonculous is an appropriate synonym for such go-to adjectives as: gnarly, sick, rad and/or ridiculous.

Snowcrastinator: (n) One who puts off work and chores intentionally and habitually in favor of skiing;

Glacialis Obsessivus: (n) frozen obsession;

skidgets: (n) those three to seven year old children you see following their ski instructor that look like skiing “midgets;”

snowgasm: (n) the act of participating in pleasurable snow-related activities such as snowboarding or skiing to the point of achieving the ultimate climax; and

Trip the white Fantastic: (v) To gracefully maneuver through frozen particulate precipitation in a coordinated and/or choreographed fashion.

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