Free Rider Glossary

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

Definitions

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+1
- A term used when a user upvotes.
- When someone has participated in a collab where the track was featured.

-1
- A term used when a user downvotes a track

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

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.

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.

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.

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 does TAS abusing

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 contains 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 its 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

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BHR - Black Hat Rider
BBC - 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
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

 

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

 

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

 

Azgr added that.

 

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.

 

Nvm then I take my W back

 

when the next freerider world cup?

 

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

 

Feet or Feach to go with Feat

 

I removed feet

 

https://www.freeriderhd.com/t/907654-holdup has to be my favorite featured track

 

Again, azgr linked those tracks, will change to better ones.

 

hmmmm