: the sport of riding the surf especially on a surfboard

Examples of surfing in a Sentence

Her hobbies include diving and surfing.
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In order to keep things as streamlined as possible, the propeller blades can be remotely folded in and retracted when the surfing starts. Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 4 Feb. 2025 Proctor was a scrawny 12-year-old surfing Malibu’s Second Point in the mid-1980s when Miod paddled up and introduced himself. Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025 Skip Frye, a San Diego surfing legend of his own who was close friends with Hynson in the late 1950s and early 1960s, called Hynson an innovator who was constantly tinkering to find a better path forward. Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025 The Great Lakes make for ideal surfing, offering waves along about 3,200 miles of shoreline in Michigan, according to Pure Michigan. Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for surfing 

Word History

First Known Use

1926, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of surfing was in 1926

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“Surfing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surfing. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.

Kids Definition

: the sport of riding the surf especially on a surfboard

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