1860 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. J. G. Kohl Kitchi-Gami xxi. 338 The sledge which is found here on Lake Superior..is made of a long narrow board, bent upwards at the end. It is generally only one foot wide, and nearly eight feet long... There may be some slight variations from here to the North Pole in the form of this snow-board, but I describe the details here as I observed them in a sledge on the lake.

1876 W. P. Buchan Plumbing xi. 70 A style which serves both as a snow-board and as a preventive of broken chimney cans, loose slates, &c., falling over the roof.

1893 J. Smeaton Plumbing iv. 86 Snow boards should always be laid in the trough gutters when running between pitched roofs.

1933 A. G. Geeson Gen. Building Repairs (ed. 3) II. v. 403 Snow boards..are placed in the gutter and prevent it becoming choked.

1971 Country Life 14 Oct. 964/1 Notices warning of snow-board avalanches had been posted..that very morning.

1983 Skiing Trade News Spring 226/2 (advt.) Burton introduces to its line of snowboards..the Powdergun..designed for the all-out powder rider.

1984 N.Y. Times 20 Feb. c2/1 Heingartner is one of a growing number of people who propel themselves down ski slopes on snow boards.

1993 Observer 3 Oct. (Life Suppl.) 32/1 Breckenridge in Colorado has opened a snowboard garden, Lenk in Switzerland has snowboard racing slopes at Betelberg, and a snowboarding school at Mayrhofen will teach carving, freestyle and even children's snowboarding for the over-sevens.

1999 J. Updike More Matter (2000) 134 A wealth of special sports equipment—sleds, ice skates, skis, snowboards—emerges to harvest fun from the cold.

1985 Skiing Jan. 141 Are these guys skiing..? No, they're snowboarding, a surfing, skateboarding, mono-skiing hybrid.

1994 Girl about Town 24 Oct. 30/2 Using ski boots to snowboard is hardly ideal.

1999 Health & Fitness Oct. 11/1 Beginners can learn to ski or snowboard, intermediates can work on their turns and advanced skiers can master the moguls (dips and ridges on a ski run).

2001 Times 26 Feb. i. 7/1 Off-piste snowboarders triggered a 200-yard-wide avalanche..that swept across an official skiing area, killing a 16-year-old German boy who was snowboarding.

1990 San-Diego Union Tribune (Nexis) 1 Mar. c1 [He] snowboarded 13,770-foot Grand Teton last spring and is now in Chamonix, France, pioneering descents.

1997 GQ Sept. 266/2 Seemingly addicted to adrenalin and utterly fearless—as The Extremists' correspondent he has bungied 700 feet and snowboarded obscure peaks from Alaska to Russia.

2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Jan. ix. 7/1 In a Polarfleece hat sprouting five foot-long rainbow-colored tentacles, [she] snowboarded the bowls with her son.