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surfing

surfing

English

Verb

surfing

present participle of surf

Noun

surfing ‎(usually uncountable, plural surfings)

The pastime or sport of riding surf on a surfboard.
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)

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Translations

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
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)

Norman: seurféthie f
Korean: 파도타기 ‎(padotagi), 서핑 (ko) ‎(seoping)
Latvian: sērfings m
Malay: meluncur
Maori: whakaheke, whakahekeheke
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 also

Wikipedia article on surfing

Spanish

Noun

surfing m ‎(uncountable)

surfing