: the sport of riding the surf especially on a surfboard
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Her hobbies include diving and surfing.
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The museum also has vintage boards, photos, and memorabilia honoring past and present surfing legends.
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Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 15 Nov. 2025
Apollo’s entry is useful for the massive €800m ‘Sports City’ currently being built on land the club owns surrounding the Metropolitano, including a new training ground for Diego Simeone’s first team, and public facilities for golf, padel and skating, and Europe’s largest inland surfing centre.
—Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
On whale cams, clingy fish steal the show The marine scientist who recorded the accidental close-ups of the remoras’ high-speed whale surfing had placed suction-cup cameras on humpbacks during their annual migration from Antarctica to the waters off Australia’s Queensland state.
—CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
This character of aberrance is what makes accidental surfing deaths seem inevitable—or, rather, inexorable, built into the subway’s force.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
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Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 15 Nov. 2025
Apollo’s entry is useful for the massive €800m ‘Sports City’ currently being built on land the club owns surrounding the Metropolitano, including a new training ground for Diego Simeone’s first team, and public facilities for golf, padel and skating, and Europe’s largest inland surfing centre.
—Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
On whale cams, clingy fish steal the show The marine scientist who recorded the accidental close-ups of the remoras’ high-speed whale surfing had placed suction-cup cameras on humpbacks during their annual migration from Antarctica to the waters off Australia’s Queensland state.
—CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
This character of aberrance is what makes accidental surfing deaths seem inevitable—or, rather, inexorable, built into the subway’s force.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
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“Surfing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surfing. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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surfing
noun
surf·ing
ˈsər-fiŋ 
: the sport of riding the surf especially on a surfboard
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