surfing

English

Etymology

From the verb surf + -ing.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝfɪŋ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fɪŋ

Verb

surfing

1. present participle and gerund 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

• bodysurfing
• car surfing
• couch-surfing
• couch surfing
• crowd surfing
• ego-surfing
• ego surfing
• elevator surfing
• kitesurfing
• kite surfing
• lift surfing
• parasurfing
• shoulder surfing
• sofa surfing
• train surfing
• volcano surfing
• windsurfing
• wing surfing

 

Related terms

• surf
• surfboard
• surfer

Descendants

• → Japanese: サーフィン

Translations

sport

• Arabic: رَكُوب أَمْوَاج m (rakūb ʔamwāj)
• Armenian: սերֆինգ (serfing)
• Belarusian: сёрфінг m (sjórfinh)
• 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/

• Audio

  (file)

• 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