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noseriding

noseriding is the present participle and gerund of noseride.

Meaning of noseride

Verb

noseride (third-person singular simple present noserides, present participle noseriding, simple past noserode, past participle noseridden)

  1. (intransitive) To manoeuvre a surfboard from the front end.
    • We strewed the contents of the box across the bench and clawed through them to find other images of Sando. There was even an old picture of him as a jug-eared kid in sandshoes, noseriding a longboard with his back arched and his arm and head thrown back like a matador.2008, Tim Winton, Breath, Picador UK Paperback edition 2008, p.71

Noun

noseriding (uncountable)

  1. The act of standing on the front end of a surfboard while riding a wave.
    • Lance's real speciality is noseriding. A lot of surfers run up to the nose.1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer

Questions about noseriding

What does noseriding mean?
Noseriding means the act of standing on the front end of a surfboard while riding a wave.
What is noseriding the present participle and gerund of?
Noseriding is the present participle and gerund of noseride.
What part of speech is noseriding?
Noseriding is a noun.

Words near noseriding in the dictionary

  1. noseridden
  2. noseride
  3. noserider
  4. noseriders
  5. noserides
  6. noseriding
  7. nosering
  8. noseringed
  9. noserings
  10. noserode
  11. nosers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: noseriding (page history and authors); noseride (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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