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# surfing

«surfing» in Mova's school dictionary: **The sport of riding on waves on a surfboard** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (surfing — uncountable); verb, -ing form of «surf»

### meaning for a pupil

1) The sport of riding on waves on a surfboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surfing/#m1)

2) (in «web surfing», «internet surfing») Looking around on the internet, going from site to site. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surfing/#m2)

3) Riding waves or moving along on something, as in «bodysurfing» or «crowd-surfing». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surfing/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Surfing is a famous sport in Australia, Hawaii, California, New Zealand, Ireland and Cornwall in England; it is in the Olympic Games. In safety lessons, pupils learn to surf only with lessons and lifeguards. «Surfing the web» is everyday computer talk. Phrases: «go surfing», «surfing lessons», «surfing competition», «web surfing».

### examples

- We went surfing on our summer holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surfing/#x1)
- Surfing takes balance and strength. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surfing/#x2)
- She is having surfing lessons at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surfing/#x3)
- Surfing became an Olympic sport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surfing/#x4)
- The coach explained surfing safety: never surf alone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surfing/#x5)
- Too much web surfing makes my eyes tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surfing/#x6)
- Bodysurfing is surfing without a board. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surfing/#x7)

### note

Uncountable as a sport: «I love surfing», not «a surfing». A person who surfs is a «surfer». The board is a «surfboard». Do not mix up «surfing» (waves) and «serving» (in tennis or at a table).

### In the corpora

- [Shoulder surfing means watching someone type their PIN.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/27-interest-on-savings-and-cash-machines/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «surfing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surfing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.