surfing

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝfɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)fɪŋ

Verb

surfing

1. present participle of surf

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• surf riding (obsolete)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bodysurfing
• crowd surfing
• kitesurfing

• shoulder surfing
• train surfing
• windsurfing

Related terms

• surf
• surfboard
• surfer

Translations

sport

• Arabic: رَكُوب أَمْوَاج‎ m (rakūb ʾamwāj)
• Armenian: սերֆինգ (serfing)
• Catalan: surf m
• 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

Further reading

• surfing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Spanish

Noun

surfing m (uncountable)

1. surfing