What does Pinterest call saving a pin from another user's board?

Pinterest calls saving a Pin from another user’s board repinning.

Repinning means saving an existing Pin to one of your own boards. The saved item may originally have appeared on another person’s board, in search results, or in a feed, but Pinterest preserves its link and attribution. The action is therefore similar to bookmarking or resharing, though “repinning” is the platform’s established term.

Pinterest’s vocabulary is built around its pinboard metaphor. Users “pin” images and links to boards, and “repin” content that has already been pinned by someone else. The word is not the same as reposting on every social network: reposting is a broad description, while repinning identifies Pinterest’s particular save-and-organize action.

Another frequent confusion is between repinning and uploading. Uploading creates a new Pin from a user’s own image or video, whereas repinning saves an existing Pinterest item. Users can also save content found elsewhere through Pinterest’s Save button, but that action is not necessarily a repin because the material did not begin as another Pinterest user’s Pin.

Pinterest’s system emphasizes discovery and curation rather than a purely chronological stream, so repinning helps ideas travel between users’ themed boards.