From February 4 to March 4 a contest to find a new catch-all word to replace “skiing and snowboarding2 ran on www.addictionary.com

The contest was sponsored by Ski Utah and Winter at Westminster and the top prize was a spring holiday to Utah.

Hundreds of submissions were received but the eventual winner was Roberta Stjernholm of Lakewood, Colorado with her submission “snowriding”.

Runners up included boardskiing, skoarding and sloping.

Here are some of powderroom.net’s other favourites:

snowrkelling
(verb) the act of skiing or snowboarding in periscope depth powder without the use of breathing aids.

ambisnostrous
 (noun) One who uses both skis and snowboards equally well and/or is fond of both boarding and skiing, without favoring one sport above the other.

skoaring
 (adjective) A combo of words to express the feeling of soaring when either skiing or snowboarding.

jiblet
 (noun) (perjorative) A grommet with style sense disproportionate to his or her skill.

skolder
 (noun) old guys who get in the way and yell at you when you bump into them at the lift line.

mogulmuggle
 (noun) an inept mogul rider who lacks the magical ability to gracefully ski/ride through moguls.

gnartard
 (pronoun) a idiot on the slopes.

snobo
 (noun) A person that is so dedicated to the sport of skiing and or riding, that they will work long and/or ridiculous hours at a mountain during the hours of 4pm-8am while lifts are not in operation in order to get them lodging and a way to buy food to shred constantly.

liftmonkey
(noun) That goofball that always bounces around and swings the lift chair regardless of what the operator says.