Board

Board or Boards may refer to:

Flat surface

• Lumber, or other rigid material, milled or sawn flat
  • Plank (wood)
  • Cutting board
  • Sounding board, of a musical instrument
• Cardboard (paper product)
• Paperboard
• Fiberboard
  • Hardboard, a type of fiberboard
• Particle board, also known as chipboard
  • Oriented strand board
• Printed circuit board, in computing and electronics
  • Motherboard, the main printed circuit board of a computer
• A reusable writing surface
  • Chalkboard
  • Whiteboard

Recreation

• Game board
  • Chessboard
  • Checkerboard
• Board (bridge), a device used in playing duplicate bridge
• Board, colloquial term for the rebound statistic in basketball
• Board track racing, a type of motorsport popular in the United States during the 1910s and 1920s
• Boards, the wall around a bandy field or ice hockey rink
• Boardsports
• Diving board (disambiguation)

Companies

• Board International, a Swiss software vendor known for its business intelligence software toolkit
• Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD), an architecture firm based in Rotterdam

Groups

• Advisory board, a body that provides non-binding strategic advice to the management of a corporation
• Currency board, the monetary authority to maintain a fixed exchange rate with a foreign currency
• Board of directors, or a similar governing or advisory committee
• Board of selectmen, the executive arm of the government of New England towns in the United States
• Board of supervisors, a governmental body that oversees the operation of county government in some U.S. states
• Board of trustees, the authority of a nonprofit organization
• Editorial board, a group responsible for a publication's editorial policy
• Examination board, an organization that sets examinations, is responsible for marking them and distributes results
• Parole board, a panel that decides whether an offender should be released from prison
• Police board, a group charged with the responsibility of overseeing a local police force
• Supervisory board, a group responsible for hiring and firing a board of directors

People

Sports

• C. J. Board (born 1993), American football player
• Chris Board (born 1995), American football player
• Dwaine Board (born 1956), American football player and coach
• Jim Board (born 1956), Australian rules footballer
• Michael Board (born 1970), British swimmer
• Terry Board (footballer, born 1945), Australian rules footballer
• Terry Board (footballer, born 1968), Australian rules footballer

Other areas

• Kate Board, English airship pilot
• Mike Board (born 1952), Australian politician
• Mykel Board (born 1950), American journalist, musician, and writer
• Printz Board (born 1982), American record producer, songwriter, and singer
• Prudy Taylor Board (born 1933), American author and editor

Other

• Board book, a book made more durable by the use of cardboard covers and thicker paper
• Board certification, for medical professionals in the United States
• Board examination, a part of education in some countries
• Board foot, measurement of lumber volume
• Boards (magazine), a 1999–2010 trade publication for the advertising community
• boards.ie, an Internet forum in Ireland
• Bulletin board (disambiguation), where people can leave public messages
• Distribution board or breaker panel, a component of an electricity supply system
• Room and board, in exchange for money, labor, or other consideration, a person is provided with a place to live as well as meals
• "The Big Board", nickname of the New York Stock Exchange

See also

• All pages with titles containing Board
• All pages with titles beginning with Board
• Boarding (disambiguation)
• Bored (disambiguation)
• Soundboard (disambiguation)
• Switchboard (disambiguation)