Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The sport of being pulled across snow or ice by a power kite while riding a snowboard or wearing skis.
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Examples
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It's called snowkiting, and the December issue of Men's Journal magazine says a place called Skyline Drive, 90 minutes south of Salt Lake City near the town of Fairview, Utah, is "poised to become the country's top snowkiting destination."
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The first kite sports school in Quebec celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, it offers lessons in kitesurfing, snowkiting, and kite buggying.
Margie Goldsmith: Les Isles de la Madeleine (Magdalen Islands), Canada 2010
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Several times a week, the 49-year-old is out on Lake Simcoe or Lake Ontario snowkiting, a sport where you cruise along snow or ice on skis or a snowboard being pulled by a kite, and sometimes leaping 20 or so feet in the air.
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We've featured executives who ski across the ice at 70-plus miles per hour in a sport called, 'Ice Kiting,' race Miatas at 100-plus miles per hour on the twists and turns of Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California, who attempt to tame Mother Nature's wrath kiteboarding and snowkiting , and ones who brave the highest peaks through mountain flying.
Forbes.com: News Kym McNicholas 2012
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Several times a week, the 49-year-old is out on Lake Simcoe or Lake Ontario snowkiting, a sport where you cruise along snow or ice on skis or a snowboard being pulled by a kite, and sometimes leaping 20 or so feet in the air.
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Drift magazine contains a snowkiting dictionary, articles about snowkiting events, interviews with athletes, and photos of people snowkiting in places around the world.
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Grossman, 37, was already a skier and snowboarder when he discovered snowkiting.
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In 2007, Grossman teamed up with Brown after the two met at a snowkiting summit in Utah hosted by owners of a snowkite business called Winds Up. Brown was editor of a snowkite magazine, and was interested in starting his own magazine.
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"We founded the magazine to help get the word out about snowkiting," Grossman said, calling it a clean, wind-powered, environmentally sensitive exciting sport.
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"So the potential market for snowkiting is massive," Grossman said.
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