sendy
English
Etymology
Etymology tree
From send + -y. Popularized by a YouTube video posted by NELK on March 7, 2023 (see quotation below) and reached virality on TikTok in July 2025.[1]
Adjective
sendy (comparative sendier, superlative sendiest)
- (slang, especially winter sports and cycling) Daring, intense, going all-out.
- 2018 February 27, “The Rome Lodge Canada: Gone Boardin'”, in Snowboarder[1], archived from the original on 3 March 2018:
- Maybe it was the company, maybe it was the mountain, but something there is something undeniable[sic – meaning undeniably] sendy about Red.
- 2021 December 29, u/acespacegnome, “Leap of faith at Jackson hole mountain”, in Reddit[2], r/nextfuckinglevel, archived from the original on 19 October 2025:
- Jackson hole is the sendiest mountains you can ski/ride. Not for the faint of heart.
- 2023 November 9, Zander Lingelbach-Pierce, BIKE Magazine[4], archived from the original on 19 October 2025:
- Even Mike Leahy, famous for sending a Rampage canyon gap on his one-wheeler called it "nuts." High praise from one of the sendiest people out there.
- 2024 February 5, @carly_urban, Twitter[5], archived from the original on 19 October 2025:
- This snow year in MT has been very thin. That's not great, but skiing over/through/around rocks, grass, stumps has made me a better (sendier?) skier when the snow is good!
References
- ^ “Let's Get Sendy”, in Know Your Meme, website launched 2007
Further reading
- “get sendy”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “getting sendy”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.