surfing

English

Etymology

From the verb surf + -ing.

Pronunciation

• (General American) 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)

• 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
• 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

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English surfing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛr.fiŋk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrfiŋk
• Syllabification: sur‧fing

Noun

surfing m inan

1. (surfing) 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 impf

 

Related terms

nouns

• surfer
• surferka

 

verb

• surfować impf

 

Further reading

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

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

Spanish

Noun

surfing m (uncountable)

1. surfing

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English surfing.

Noun

surfing c

1. surfing

   Synonym: surfning

Declension

Declension of surfing
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	surfing	surfingen	—	—
Genitive	surfings	surfingens	—	—

Related terms

• surfa
• surfare