Pinterest calls saving a pin from someone else’s board to your own board repinning.
A repin creates a copy of an existing Pinterest pin on one of the user’s own boards. The action lets people collect and organize discoveries without having to upload the image again from scratch. The repinned item normally retains a link to its original web source, helping Pinterest function as a visual bookmarking system as well as a social network.
The term is often compared with retweeting because both actions redistribute someone else’s post to a new audience. The comparison is useful, but the services work differently: Pinterest organizes repins into themed boards, while a retweet primarily republishes a message in a chronological social feed.
Repinning is also different from liking a pin. A like signals approval or interest but does not necessarily place the item on one of the user’s boards. “Clipping” and “bookmarking” describe related ideas in other products, but repinning is Pinterest’s established term for this specific action.