Snowboarding

 is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered slope while
standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter
Olympic Games and Winter Paralympic Games.
The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It
was developed in the United States in the 1960s, became a Winter Olympic
Sport at Nagano in 1998[1] and featured in the Winter Paralympics at Sochi in 2014.[2] As of 2015, its
popularity (as measured by equipment sales) in the United States peaked in 2007 and has been in a
decline since.[3][4]