Boarder
Australian Definition (girls):A school aged kid who attends boarding school. They are often stereotyped as being from wealthy families or from large farms. Although many
boarders are from these situations, a great deal are also on financial bursaries, and academic/cultural/sport scholarships. Some are just from average families, and their parents have had to make many sacrifices to ensure that their children could receive an education far superior than their own.Some Aussie kids go to boarding school because they live in remote areas or have poor schooling systems in their area. Many have completed
Distance Education.
Boarders in regional boarding schools often affectionately call each other 'bogans' and often dress in trackies, singlets, flannies, thongs and ugg boots. They are world leaders when it comes to wearing their hair in 'messy buns'.They often use slang and swearing, and are known to be scabs, always trying to get free food off anyone who's got it. They frequently buy
fundraiser chocolates.Socials between boarding schools, "
Boarder's Bashes", are extremely popular.As they enter the senior years, many are taken on leave by day girls to parties involving drugs, sex, alcohol, smokes, and not to mention a
video camera to record everthing with. Some of the worst of these will boast of how much they threw up.They have a terrible habit of 'killing' songs. This means that a girl will play one of the latest songs over and over on their stereo for weeks until everyone decides that they never want to hear it again. Or at least not for
18 months or so. At this moment "
Boom Boom Pow" by the Black Eyed Peas is being slaughtered.Generally they stick together, and are friendly towards one another. They are much more united than day girls,and sometimes day girl vs.
boarder fights are ignited.
State of Origin is an important event,and they will passionately wear their maroon and blue to the Dining Hall for the themed Dinner, and then go back to the Common Room to watch the match. Much screaming occurs. (Note: best not to have parents of international students visit at this time. They are slightly scared of both the noise, and the
creaking ceiling from the girls jumping up and down upstairs).The majority of boarders will wear their
Boarder status as a badge of pride.I should know. I am one.
Boarder
by RunOfTheMill on Apr 15, 2004 04:09:09
A person that Snowboards. They differ slightly from Skaters. They tend to be more in touch with the world and the elements. Wear less baggier jeans, more Brand names such as Quicksilver and
O'Neil. Boarders also
laze about too much,doing what they want,when they want. Apart from these
minor details they look identical to Skaters.
Townies will hate them...
Townie
Skater
Example:
Boarders are not unlike
Skaters. Wearing and doing generally the same apart from being strapped to a board with
no wheels at 3000ft.
Boarder
by Miss T. Ree on Aug 30, 2011 02:29:57
A person that participates in snowboarding, wakeboarding, skateboarding, windsurfing, longboarding, freeboarding, surfing, wakeskating, wakesurfing,
skimboarding,
kitesurfing, flowriding or any sport that shares similar traits as those listed above. These people tend to be down to earth, and share a special passion for their sport, life and the elements. They can be identified by the clothing they wear usually brand names associated with board sports like
Quiksilver, Forum, Billabong, LibTech ect. Boarders lead a laid back lifestyle often forced into doing
slave labour so that they can continue to pursue their passion. Often dreaming that one day they will be good enough to be sponsored and be paid to do what they love. When asked to describe their sport they often go on long rants about how amazing and deeply connected they are with everything around them and how the world is a perfect place when they are riding. A very spiritual experience.
Example:
There goes a
boarder now you can tell because he has some sort of board like device with him/her and the intention to
ride it on some gnarly
terrain.
Power Boarder
by Ogdemigod on Apr 15, 2009 04:04:21
A term that started at
a Phoenix Arizona skate park used to refer to the young
skateboarders that all line up on the top of Bowl to drop in and launch out of the other side.The term Power Boarder is applied to them because of the Power Ranger shirts they don or just by being in the same group as the fan base of that show.Being young,they have no consideration for the people who actually use the lip they are all lined up on,making the bowl useless by those who wish to use the
coping.
Example:
Seeing the small children
drop in without looking for others they might run into the old school
skateboarder screamed,"Power Boarder!!" to warn the
innocent people skating in their destructive path.