Boardsports are active outdoor sports that are played with any sort of board as the primary equipment.
These sports take place on a variety of terrains, from paved flat-ground and snow-covered hills to water and air.
For example, it is not hard to conceive of a person, who is familiar with the concept of skiing or sledding, standing sideways on a plank of wood and riding down a snow-covered slope.
M.J. "Jack" Burchett is credited with first doing this in 1929, using horse reins and clothesline to secure his feet on the plank of wood.
[9] There are a variety of board sports, which are characterized by terrain: Surf, Snow, Wake, Skate are the primary.