Surf

Quick meaning: Surf is a noun meaning Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.

Meaning

Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.

More Meanings

1. An instance or session of riding a surfboard in the surf.
2. A dance popular in the 1960s in which the movements of a surfboard rider are mimicked.
3. (UK, dialect) The bottom of a drain.
4. To ride a wave on a surfboard; to pursue or take part in the sport of surfing.
5. To surf at a specified place.
6. To bodysurf; to swim in the surf at a beach.
7. (ambitransitive) To browse the Internet, television, etc.

Example Sentences

We went for a surf this morning.

It was alone, nervously alighting and flying short distances along the surf.

She [...] loves to cook, sew and dance. She's up on all the latest steps like the frug, the hully-gully and the surf.

In most instances the inshore holes or pockets along the surf do not produce as well as the cuts or sloughs between sand bars.

Word Forms

• surfs
• surfing
• surfed

Synonyms for surf

Depending on context, synonyms include breaker, windsurf, channel-surf, breakers.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include windsurf, breaker, channel-surf, breakers, surfboard, snowboard.

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