SURFING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surfing mean? 

• SURFING (noun)
  The noun SURFING has 1 sense:

1. the sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the crest of a wave

  Familiarity information: SURFING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURFING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the crest of a wave

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

surfboarding; surfing; surfriding

Hypernyms ("surfing" is a kind of...):

aquatics; water sport (sports that involve bodies of water)

Derivation:

surf (ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard)

 Context examples 

As the sound waves propagate, they trap the electrons, pushing them through the device in a very precise way, as if the electrons are ‘surfing’ on the sound waves.

(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)