title: Board
text: # 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
  
  * Board game
     * 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
  