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golfing

golfing is the present participle and gerund of golf.

Meaning of golf

Verb

golf (third-person singular simple present golfs, present participle golfing, simple past and past participle golfed)

  1. (intransitive) To play the game of golf.
    • Last mystery of all, he learned to golf.1894, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work/An Error in the Fourth Dimension
  2. To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)

See all 3 meanings of golf

Noun

golfing (countable and uncountable, plural golfings)

  1. A session of playing golf.

Forms of golfing

pluralgolfings

Questions about golfing

What does golfing mean?
Golfing means a session of playing golf.
What is golfing the present participle and gerund of?
Golfing is the present participle and gerund of golf.
What part of speech is golfing?
Golfing is a noun.
What is the plural of golfing?
The plural of golfing is golfings.

Words near golfing in the dictionary

  1. golfers
  2. golfese
  3. golfiana
  4. golfier
  5. golfiest
  6. golfing
  7. golfingiid
  8. golfingiids
  9. golfings
  10. golflang
  11. golflangs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: golfing (page history and authors); golf (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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