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  • Free Rider Glossary

    Discussion in 'Anything and everything Free Rider' started by TPlacella, May 6, 2025.

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    1. TPlacella

      TPlacella Super Moderator on the FRHD speedrun.com page Team Helicopter Official Author

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      Credit to Azgr00 for original glossary
      Formatting and heaps more definitions coming soon


      Definitions
      +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

      Acronyms
      BHR - Black Hat Rider
      BBC :ugh: - Big Box Contest :)
      BC - Box Contest
      CR - Canvas Rider
      EA - Elite Author
      FR - Free Rider
      frapp - freerider.app
      FR2 - Free Rider 2
      FR3 - Free Rider 3
      FRHD - Free Rider HD
      FRCE - Free Rider Community Edition
      FRRE - Free Rider Roblox Edition
      FRSE - Free Rider Special Edition
      FRWC - Free Rider World Cup
      FRDB - Free Rider Database
      FR2DB - Free Rider 2 Database
      GBC - Ghosting Battle Contest
      GOTD - Ghost/ghosyer of the decade
      GOTY - Ghost/ghoster of the year
      MBC - Multi-box contest
      Mopus - Magnum Opus (a track by Max007x)
      MWC - Miniature World Contest
      NFRL - National Free Rider League
      NTBF - Never to be finished.
      NSB - Non-spacebar
      OA - Official Author
      OFG - Official Featured Ghosts
      OML - OneMoreLevel
      ORG - Official Ranked Ghosting
      PBC - Picture Box Contest
      PCC - Pokémon Card Contest
      RC - Remix Contest
      SMCP - Super Mario Campaign
      SMMC - Super Mario Maker Contest
      TAS - Tool-assisted speedrun
      TBF - To be finished
      TOTD - Track of the decade
      TOTY - Track of the year
      WIP - Work in progress
       
      Last edited: May 21, 2025
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    2. JustAGDFan

      JustAGDFan Well-Known Member Team Balloon Official Author

      nice one, this is definitely more organized than azgr's
       
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    3. mbcool

      mbcool Well-Known Member Official Author

      The fact that Moyai is in this list is cool. Rare tplac W
       
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    4. TPlacella

      TPlacella Super Moderator on the FRHD speedrun.com page Team Helicopter Official Author

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      Azgr added that.
       
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    5. FoxGamingTM

      FoxGamingTM Well-Known Member Official Author

      As someone who's been on the site for almost a decade now, it's funny to see a glossary to guide new players with the terms.
       
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    6. mbcool

      mbcool Well-Known Member Official Author

      Nvm then I take my W back
       
      Last edited: May 7, 2025
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    7. ruetus

      ruetus Active Member Official Author

      when the next freerider world cup?
       
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    8. TPlacella

      TPlacella Super Moderator on the FRHD speedrun.com page Team Helicopter Official Author

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      going to confirm with t12 that I can host and I will organise everything except tracks/round schedules atm
       
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    9. Elibloodthirst

      Elibloodthirst DeadRising2 VIP Team Helicopter Forum Member Of The Decade (2014-2024) Official Author

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      Feet or Feach to go with Feat
       
    10. TPlacella

      TPlacella Super Moderator on the FRHD speedrun.com page Team Helicopter Official Author

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      I removed feet
       
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    11. isekeb

      isekeb Well-Known Member Team Blob Official Author

    12. TPlacella

      TPlacella Super Moderator on the FRHD speedrun.com page Team Helicopter Official Author

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    13. ruetus

      ruetus Active Member Official Author

      hmmmm
       
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    14. Azgr00

      Azgr00 Well-Known Member Team Helicopter Official Author

      nice! glad someone finally made a new glossary after i quit xd
       
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