+1
- A term used when a user upvotes a track or subscribes to an author.
- When someone has participated in a collab where the track was featured.
-1
- A term used when a user downvotes a track or unsubscribes to an author.
Alt
- Alternate account
Auto
- An automatic track, where you don't have to press any key, and the track will be complete itself.
Examples of auto tracks:
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/812299-tubes https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/929097-bomb-freefall-auto
Autogen
- An auto-generated track, made with tools or code. It can be an image to track gen or auto-generated objects/lines for trials and offroad. Frowned upon by the community for
Examples of autogen tracks:
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/877300-autogen-desc https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/828435-my-good-friends-cat
Auto-spacebar
- A banned ghosting technique using a tool or script to input spacebar at a certain interval instead of people having to physically press the key.
Blank
- To ignore someone or pretend that you haven't seen or do not know them.
Climb
- A type of track that is similar to offroad and downhill, but more elevated.
Examples of climb tracks:
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/843085-daily-climb https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/734872-speed-climb-ii
Collab
- Collaboration, a track that was made with the help of 2 or more authors.
Convo
- A forum conversation.
Desc
- Short for description, used in track titles for people to read the description of a track
Dislike Bomber
- Someone who participates in dislike bombing
Dislike Bombing
- Someone who purposefully dislikes tracks with multiple alt accounts.
Daily
- The daily track section
- A track that appeared on the daily track section
Downhill
- A type of track that is similar to offroads and climbs but less elevated
Examples of downhill tracks:
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/844871-daily-downhill https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/882776-trickflippin
Elite Author
- A title given to users when they reach 3 featured tracks, where they can change their forum title and can participate in voting for featured tracks
Feat
- A featured track or featured ghost
Featured
- When a track or ghost receives feature status
Featured ghost
- An exceptional ghost, usually in 1st place, which is picked by ghost moderators. Similar to featured tracks, but doesn't appear on the home page. It can be a trickghost, vehicle ghost, fast ghost or autocut.
Here is the list of all featured ghosts ->
https://community.freeriderhd.com/threads/official-featured-ghosts.6336/
Featured track
- An exceptional track with quality ride, detail and substantial scale. Voted upon by VIPs. Featured tracks appear on the home page and have a ribbon in the top right of the track thumbnail.
You can find some information of them here ->
https://community.freeriderhd.com/threads/featured-tracks-information.6291/
Examples of featured tracks:
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/936672-kelp-me-im-drowining https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/907654-holdup
Free Rider World Cup
- A ghosting competition that happens every 2 years, uses the same format as the FIFA World Cup.
Gen
- Same thing as autogen.
Ghost
- A clickable replay that appears when someone has completed a track, appears automatically for their own ghosts.
Ghost Mod
- Ghost moderator
Ghost Moderator
- A player who can review ghosts if they are worthy to be featured, discuss monthly Ghosting Awards and help formulate Top 100 Ghosters Lists.
Ghoster
- A player who is good at the game, ghosts often, on top of many leadboards or is well-known for their ghosts
Ghosting
- The act of completing a track in a fast or stylish way
Ghosting Legend
- A title on forums awarded to players who meet at least one of 11 requirements. The equivalent of VIP but for ghosters instead of trackmakers.
Gravity Flipper
- A banned ghosting tool that orients the screen during a ghost when a player goes through a gravity powerup so the rider never appears flipped over or to the side.
Heli
- The helicopter powerup
Holdup
- A track where you only hold the up arrow key, and the track will complete itself.
Examples of holdup tracks:
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/908935-bombdash-4 https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/907654-holdup
Imgen
- A type of autogen, which you upload an image file, get a track code, import it, and get a free rider track identical to the image. The colours of the image are rounded to the FRHD colours.
Input Display
- A script which shows the inputs pressed by a player during a ghost both in real time and in replays.
Jumps
- A type of track that usually contains slopes and ramps.
Examples of jumps tracks:
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/804931-sunset https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/840156-thundering-boulders
Mod
- A moderator
- A modification of the game that is not built in by default. Example: input displays.
Moyai
- A track trend that was popular late 2021 to early 2022, where there is a moyai statue in the track. Famous users, like RadiumRC and xMichaelFTW have made this kind of track.
Never Clear
- A track trend, with a track that is mostly a hard trial, with sometimes a Geometry Dash reference, along with a user in the track name. Most track titles follow "(user) never clear". Famous users, like ShamatoZ and Egona have made this kind of track.
Examples of never clear tracks:
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/945369-tplacella-never-clear-5 https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/945314-xenom-never-clear
Non-spacebar
- A good ghoster that does not spacebar.
- A ghost, that wasn't made without spacebarring
Official Author
- A title given to some users where they can upload tracks without spending coins, upload tracks without completing them in the editor, and also have a badge both in-game and in the forums.
Official Ranked Ghosting
- The largest ghosting tournament in FRHD, started by
Coated_Badger and hosted by
Totoca12,
Eryp and
Madara in 2021, involved ELO based one-on-one ranked matchups
Offroad
- A type of track, with repeated small lines that are connected. they are mostly harder than jumps tracks.
Examples of offroad tracks:
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/923888-sappy https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/837562-scrap-metal
Punch
- Beating another player's ghost, this term has been popularised by
erikeriksson2001
Spacebarring
- A strategy used by most ghosters where they tap the space bar, press the keys they want, then tap the spacebar again. They have a better reaction time and can perfect inputs more easily.
Spam
- Publishes more tracks or sends posts than what is considered normal
Spammer
- Someone who spams posts or tracks
Tool-assisted speedrun
- Also known as TAS, a script that adds invisible checkpoints to every tick that passes, and you can rewind these checkpoints without having to worry about the checkpoint time discount, but changes the time to a very long time (example: 100:00.00), to prevent cheating.
Examples of TAS ghosts:
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/51007-totocas-auto-001/r/tassed https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/279722-bolaside-ii/r/tafr
TAS abusing
- The act of using TAS on published tracks, without changing the time. This is considered cheating.
TAS abuser
- Someone who abuses TAS
Trial
- A track made as a challenge, that contains small obstacles, like tubes, bumps, and is much harder than jump and offroad tracks.
Examples of trial tracks ->
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/780820-another-trial-collab https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/873675-unforgivable
Trickghost
- A ghost that focuses on style rather than completion time, containing many tricks like brakeflips, wheelies and endos
Examples of trickghosts ->
https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/796822-fjieerkeropeppokreprekoprkopre/r/cerulean https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/742631-wiggly-worm/r/xgrtas
Tube
- A straight or curved obstacle with two lines separated from each other, mostly by six 10 grid units, where the rider must lean back when entering the tube to avoid hitting their head.
Tubing
- The act of completing a tube as fast as you can, similar to ghosting.
Trending
- The trending track section.
- A track that appeared in the trending tracks section
VIP
- Title on forums awarded to players with 10 featured tracks, won a major trackmaking contest, won track of the year in the FRHD Awards, or contributed extensively to the trackmaking community.
Wheelie
- The act of the rider only touching a line with the back wheel.
- An auto or holdup track where the rider only touches all lines with the back wheel.
Work in progress
- A track that is being made and is not finished yet, can be published track preview or teaser on forums