surf
Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.
Other meanings
An instance or session of riding a surfboard in the surf.
“We went for a surf this morning.”
A dance popular in the 1960s in which the movements of a surfboard rider are mimicked.
Synonyms
- breakers
Related words
- surfbird
- surfcast
- surfcoast
- surfie
- surflike
- surfman
- surfperch
- surfrider
- surfriding
- surfside
- surfwear
- surfy
Word history
From Middle English "suffe".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “surf” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.