Korean slang profile
제트보드
jeteubodeu
Jet-powered water board
Water-sports equipment with a jet engine built into a board to travel over water.
- Expanded form
- jet boardjet board
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2004
- Documented trend period
- Not verified
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
바다에서 제트보드를 타는 모습을 구경했다.
I watched someone ride a 제트보드 at sea.
02Documented history
- 2004The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2004 new-word collection lists the headword “제트보드” and its definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The collection describes water sports combining advantages of surfing, jet skiing, and water skiing, with a jet engine inside the board. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
The headword, definition, and source-language spelling in the 2004 collection were compared. The original older articles re-quoted there were not directly opened, so their dates were not used for firstSeen. The first coinage and spread remain unverified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2004년 신어 (국립국어원)Published 2004Original source checked Nov 14, 2026