Definition:
Lingo for Terrain Parks and Pipes
- Airtime: time not spent touching the ground.
- Groms: Began as a term for young (pre- and early-teenager) surfers but has been adopted by snowboarders and freeskiers.
- Freerider: A snow rider on a snowboard or skis.
- Fun Boxes: Any box-shaped object, usually square or rectangular, that snowboarders and skiers can jump over, slide across or otherwise play on top of it. The "box" shape and the styling depend on the designer's imagination.
- Hit: A jump. It can be over a tabletop, a mound of snow or anything that lets one catch air.
- Hucking: Throwing oneself into a big-air maneuver with a lot of energy (and not always great skill).
- Jibber: slang term for snowboarder.
- Maneuver: What the free rider does between take-off and landing-- such as a "grab (grabbing the board with one hand) or a trick (such as a 540 which is 1 1/2 turns while in the air).
- Halfpipe: A manmade snow tube. Envision a length of pipe cut in half. Superpipe: Picture a monster-sized halfpipe that can be hundreds of feet long.
- Rails: Envision a handrail, but it can be made of anything (including a stairway rail). They come in many shapes from straight to a roller coaster. Tabletop: Resorts got tired of riders jumping and sliding across picnic tables so they added a variety of table tops to the parks.
- Terrain park: Marked-off areas with manmade features, including rails, boxes, tabletops and other features. Some parks have literally dozens of features.
