Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to ride a wave:
Русский
By meaning 2
to ride a wave:
to browse the Internet:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to ride a wave:

Examples

192 sentences

  1. I've never been surfing.

    ruЯ никогда не занимался сёрфингом. — Ivanovb

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  2. I'd rather be surfing.

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  3. Have you been surfing?

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Meaning

4 senses

  1. To ride a wave on a surfboard; to pursue or take part in the sport of surfing.

    wellenreiten, surfen

    занима́ться сёрфингомzanimátʹsja sjórfingom

    займа́тися се́рфінгомzajmátysja sérfinhom

    ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard

  2. (ambitransitive)To browse the Internet, television, etc.

    surfen

    сёрфитьsjórfitʹ

  3. To surf at a specified place.

  4. To bodysurf; to swim in the surf at a beach.

Origin

Probably from earlier suff, suffe (“the inrush of the sea towards the shore”), possibly fr

Probably from earlier suff, suffe (“the inrush of the sea towards the shore”), possibly from Middle English suffe. Compare sough, surf (“a gutter, drain, sewer, trench”) and sough (“a soothing, gentle, murmuring sound of wind or water”). Alternatively, possibly of Indo-Aryan origin, as the word was formerly a reference to the coast of India, though this is doubtful as no positive etymon can be identified.

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Forms

surfs, surfing, surfed, surfed

regular · Lesson

Base formsurf · to surf
3rd person singularsurfs
Present participlesurfing
Past simplesurfed
Past participlesurfed

Tenses

surf · surfed · will surf · have surfed

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysurf
he, she, itsurfs

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave surfed
he, she, ithas surfed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill surf

Past simpleLesson

all personssurfed

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard:surfboard
  • look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular:browse
  • switch channels, on television:channel-surf

Word family

26 related words
Relatedsurfersurfing
Derivedcounter surfsurfboardbed surfbodysurfcar-surfchannel-surfcouch surfcybersurfegosurfkitesurfnetsurfparasurfshoulder surfside surfsilver surferskurfsnurfsofa surfsurfablesurfarisurfatrontrain surfwakesurfwebsurf

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

6 patterns
  • go surfing
  • go surfing with
  • how to surf
  • surf very well
  • surfing yesterday
  • like surfing

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sureA1surelyB1surfaceB1surfboard

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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