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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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Snowboarding

moguls

Sports; Snowboarding

These are large bumps in the slope. The same as in skiing.

mono-ski

Sports; Snowboarding

This is a single ski with side-by-side bindings.

mosquito air

Sports; Snowboarding

The snowboarders front hand reaches behind their front leg and grabs the heel edge between the bindings at the same time their front knee is bent to touch the board in a tuck-knee style.

mute grap

Sports; Snowboarding

The snowboarders front hand grabs the toe edge either between the toes or in front of the front foot.

nine hundred

Sports; Snowboarding

When a snowboarder rotates 900-degrees in the air and then lands riding fakie. In the half-pipe, the rider comes up to the wall riding forward, rotates 900-degrees and then lands riding forward.

nollie

Sports; Snowboarding

This is an ollie but springing off of the nose instead of the tail.

nollie frontflip

Sports; Snowboarding

Springing off the nose when going off a jump and leaning forward.

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