Surfing is standing on a board and riding the moving walls of the sea. Go surfing, learn to surf, a surfing beach.
It began in Polynesia, was central to Hawaiian culture, and was suppressed by missionaries before reviving in the twentieth century. It became an Olympic sport in 2020. Longboards, shortboards and bodyboards are the main kinds of equipment. Note wipeout, meaning a fall; the line-up, meaning where surfers wait; and that surfing the internet is a metaphor from this, now so worn that few people notice it.
1nounsurfingRiding breaking waves standing on a board.
“Surfing there is best in about November.”
surfing is a water sport.
Middle English
suffe
English
surf
English, today
surfing
Built from
From surf + -ing. 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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