surfing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɝfɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fɪŋ

Verb

surfing

1. present participle of surf

Noun

surfing (usually uncountable, plural surfings)

1. The pastime or sport of riding surf on a surfboard.
2. 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)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bodysurfing
• crowd surfing
• kitesurfing

• shoulder surfing
• train surfing
• windsurfing

Related terms

• surf
• surfboard
• surfer

Descendants

• → Japanese: サーフィン

Translations

sport

• Arabic: رَكُوب أَمْوَاج m (rakūb ʔamwāj)
• Armenian: սերֆինգ (serfing)
• Bulgarian: сърфинг m (sǎrfing), сърфиране n (sǎrfirane)
• Catalan: surf m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衝浪／冲浪 (zh) (chōnglàng), 冲浪 (zh) (chōnglàng)

• Cornish: mordardha m
• Esperanto: ondorajdado
• Finnish: lainelautailu (fi)
• French: surf (fr) m
• Georgian: სერფინგი (serpingi)
• German: Wellenreiten n, Surfen (de) n
• Greek: κυματοδρομία (el) f (kymatodromía)
• Hawaiian: heʻe nalu
• Irish: marcaíocht toinne f
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• Italian: surf (it) m
• Japanese: サーフィン (ja) (sāfin), 波乗り (なみのり, naminori)
• Korean: 파도타기 (padotagi), 서핑 (ko) (seoping)
• Latvian: sērfings m
• Malay: meluncur
• Maori: whakaheke, whakahekeheke
• Norman: seurféthie f
• Polish: surfing (pl) m
• Portuguese: surfe (pt) m (Brazil), surf (pt) m (Portugal)
• 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

Further reading

• surfing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English surfing.

Noun

surfing m inan

1. surfing (sport)

Declension

Declension of surfing

	singular
nominative	surfing
genitive	surfingu
dative	surfingowi
accusative	surfing
instrumental	surfingiem
locative	surfingu
vocative	surfingu

Derived terms

adjective

• surfingowy

 

verb

• surfingować

 

Related terms

nouns

• surfer
• surferka

 

verb

• surfować

 

Further reading

• surfing in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• surfing in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English surfing.

Noun

surfing n (uncountable)

1. surfing

Declension

declension of surfing (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) surfing	surfingul
genitive/dative	(unui) surfing	surfingului
vocative	surfingule

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Spanish

Noun

surfing m (uncountable)

1. surfing

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Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English surfing.

Noun

surfing c

1. surfing

   Synonym: surfning

Declension

Declension of surfing

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	surfing	surfings
	definite	surfingen	surfingens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• surfa
• surfare