shralping
n.— «Longboarding has become something more than just a way to get around for Olschner and Grow, it’s now something they consider a part of them. “I started riding to ride, I had no destination, just the sensation of carving under my feet,” Olschner said. They even coined a term for it: Shralping. “Shralping is longboarding with no destination, just cruising,” Grow said.» —“Schralps and Yettis: For two seniors, longboarding is more than a quick way to get to class” by Caitlin Richmond Whitworthian (Spokane, Washington) Nov. 11, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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We were shralping on the ski slopes in the very late ’80s and early ’90s.