surfing

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)fɪŋ

VerbEdit

surfing

1. present participle of surf

NounEdit

surfing (usually uncountable, plural surfings)

1. The pastime or sport of riding surf on a surfboard.
2. The activity of browsing the Internet.
   • 2003, Don Yoder, Groundhog Day (page v)

     To J. M. Duffin, former student and now assistant archivist at the University of Pennsylvania, thanks for courteous surfings of the Internet for missing dates, publishers, and other embarrassing gaps in my text.

SynonymsEdit

• surf riding (obsolete)

Related termsEdit

• surf
• surfboard
• surfer

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• bodysurfing
• crowd surfing
• kitesurfing

• shoulder surfing
• train surfing
• windsurfing

TranslationsEdit

sport

• Arabic: رَكُوب أَمْوَاج‏‎ m (rakūb ʾamwāj)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衝浪 (zh), 冲浪 (zh) (chōnglàng)

• Cornish: mordardha m
• Esperanto: ondorajdado
• Finnish: lainelautailu (fi)
• French: surf (fr) m
• Georgian: სერფინგი (serpingi)
• German: Wellenreiten n, Surfen (de) n
• Greek: κυματοδρομία (el) f (kymatodromía)
• Hawaiian: heʻe nalu
• Irish: marcaíocht toinne f
• Italian: surf (it) m

• Japanese: サーフィン (ja) (sāfin), 波乗り (なみのり, naminori)
• Korean: 파도타기 (padotagi), 서핑 (ko) (seoping)
• Latvian: sērfings m
• Malay: meluncur
• Maori: whakaheke, whakahekeheke
• Norman: seurféthie f
• Portuguese: surfe (pt) m
• Russian: сёрфинг (ru) m (sjórfing), се́рфинг (ru) m (sɛ́rfing)
• Scottish Gaelic: surfadh m
• Spanish: surf (es) m
• Turkish: sörf (tr)
• Welsh: beistonna m, syrffio m

See alsoEdit

• Wikipedia article on surfing

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SpanishEdit

NounEdit

surfing m (uncountable)

1. surfing