big air
Snowboarder's lofty launch
Big air is a category of extreme sports competition where athletes launch off a massive ramp to perform aerial tricks, judged on height, distance, and technical difficulty.
The term appears in skiing, snowboarding, and BMX: She won gold in big air at the Winter Olympics.
More loosely, big air describes any impressive airborne moment in action sports: He caught some serious big air off that jump.
- jumpPropel oneself airborne
- hangtimeDuration aloft
- spinRapid rotation around axis
- flipQuick turning motion
- double backflipTwo backward aerial rotations
ski jumping · aerials · X Games · terrain park · park rat · send · amplitude · full send · freestyle skiing · kicker · superpipe · snowboarding · snow sports · Winter Olympics · action sports · stomping · freeskiing · trick
- extreme sportsbungee jumping, skydiving, wingsuit flying, cliff diving, free solo
- jumping activitiesleapfrog, jump rope, pole vault, double dutch, high jump
- winter activitiesskiing, skating, tobogganing, sledding, downhill skiing
- Board Sportsollie, kickflip, heelflip, grind, rail
- Freestyle Skiingaerials, moguls, half-pipe, slopestyle
- trick sportsfreestyle BMX, freestyle skiing, skateboarding, snowboarding, halfpipe