Other forms: surfers
A surfer is somebody who rides breaking waves. A keen surfer, surfers at dawn, a big-wave surfer.
Most of the time is spent paddling and waiting rather than riding, which is the part films leave out. Surfers watch swell forecasts obsessively, because a good wave depends on the wind, the tide and the shape of the sea bed all at once.
1nounsurferSomebody who rides breaking waves.
“The surfers rode the huge waves towards the beach while crowds watched from the sand.”
surfer is a person.
Middle English
suffe
English
surf
English, today
surfer
Built from
From surf + -er. surf Probably from earlier suff, suffe (“the inrush of the sea towards the shore”), possibly from Middle English suffe. Compare sough, surf (“a gutter, drain, sewer, trench”) and sough (“a soothing, gentle, murmuring sound of wind or water”). Alternatively, possibly of inc origin, as the word was formerly a reference to the coast of India, though this is doubtful as no positive etymon can be identified. The verb is from 1917. The verb referring to "browsing the Internet" was popularized by Jean Armour Polly.
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