surf

Meaning

Noun

1. Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.
2. An instance or session of riding a surfboard in the surf.
3. A dance popular in the 1960s in which the movements of a surfboard rider are mimicked.
4. The bottom of a drain.

Verb

1. To ride a wave on a surfboard; to pursue or take part in the sport of surfing.
2. To surf at a specified place.
3. To bodysurf; to swim in the surf at a beach.
4. To browse the Internet, television, etc.

Synonyms

breakers

wave

👋

breaker

browse

waves

surfboard

surge

channel-surf

navigate

aquaplane

seawater

spindrift

swell

windsurf

large wave

surf the net

surf-ride

rough water

sea waves

billow

bore

bow-wave

chop

choppiness

ripple

roller

roughness

saltwater

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɜːf/

Etymology

1680s, perhaps from earlier suffe (c. 1590), possibly related to sough, or possibly of Indo-Aryan origin, as the word was formerly a reference to the coast of India.
The verb is from 1917.