surfing
/ˈsɝfɪŋ/
surfing is the present participle and gerund of surf.
Noun
surfing (usually uncountable, plural surfings)
- The pastime or sport of riding surf on a surfboard.
- The activity of browsing the Internet.
- 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.2003, Don Yoder, Groundhog Day, page v
Meaning of surf
Verb
surf (third-person singular simple present surfs, present participle surfing, simple past and past participle surfed)
- To ride a wave on a surfboard; to pursue or take part in the sport of surfing.
- To surf at a specified place.
- To bodysurf; to swim in the surf at a beach.
- Such diversion as Podson could extort from his isolation was soon vitiated by repetition. He surfed. He sun-baked - with discretion till his skin had peeled and given him a harder cuticle.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 90
- To browse the Internet, television, etc.
Synonyms of surfing
Forms of surfing
| plural | surfings |
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Origin of surfing
From surf + -ing.
Words formed from surfing
- antisurfing
- bed surfing
- bodysurfing
- car surfing
- couch surfing
- couch-surfing
- crowd surfing
- cybersurfing
- doomsurfing
- egosurfing
- ego-surfing
- ego surfing
- elevator surfing
- kite surfing
- kitesurfing
- lift surfing
- netsurfing
- parasurfing
- shoulder surfing
- skurfing
- skysurfing
- snowsurfing
- snurfing
- sofa surfing
- table surfing
- train surfing
- vanity surfing
- volcano surfing
- wakesurfing
- windsurfing
- wing surfing
Phrases with surfing
Words that rhyme with surfing
Questions about surfing
- What does surfing mean?
- Surfing means the pastime or sport of riding surf on a surfboard.
- What is surfing the present participle and gerund of?
- Surfing is the present participle and gerund of surf.
- What part of speech is surfing?
- Surfing is a noun.
- How do you pronounce surfing?
- Surfing is pronounced /ˈsɝfɪŋ/ (US).
- What is the plural of surfing?
- The plural of surfing is surfings.
Words near surfing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: surfing (page history and authors); surf (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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