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surf | American Dictionary

surf
noun[ U ]
us/sɜrf/

surfnoun[U] (WAVES)

the waves on the sea when they approach the coast or hit against rocks
surf
verb
us/sɜrf/

surfverb (MOVE QUICKLY)

[ T ]
to move quickly from one place to another within a system to learn what each place is offering:
You can turn on your computer now and go surfing on the Web.
He spends a lot of time surfing TV channels.

surfverb (RIDE WAVES)

[ I ]
to use a surfboard (= long, narrow board) to ride waves toward a beach:
They go surfing every weekend.

surf | Business English

surf
verb[ I or T ]
 INTERNETuk /sɜːf/us
to spend time looking at websites:
Persuading more subscribers to surf the internet is at the heart of a strategy intended to boost sales.

surfing

noun[ U ]
Here are ten safe surfing tips for teens.

Examples of surf

surf
The morning's surf, breaking offshore and dumping heavily inshore, was clearly unmanageable but preparations went forward in hopes of an improvement.
Next day the ice had gone but heavy surf swamped the dinghy.
See, it has a surf-board, and it is all open.
Young people looking for fun and escape identified above all with dance crazes like the twist, hully-gully, surf and shake.
The young office employees' idea of playing sports is to surf or to play tennis.
Visits by sea often failed because of changeable weather and surf, engine failure, or leaky boats.
Five of them froze to death on shore and another five were lost in the surf.
Many people think, for example, that the whole state is a big beach, and its inhabitants are always surfing.
In crude terms, the teenagers and twenty-pluses are either surfing the net or out clubbing.
The ability to know exactly who is surfing a vendor's site is invaluable.
Tense discussions revolved around risking the surf that day or waiting for better conditions on the next which might turn out to be worse.
If the world consisted of only computer scientists, we would still be surfing the web in this way.
A monthly claiming to be the biggest surfing magazine in the world: surf, surfer, surfing no doubt now international.
The swell rolled round on both sides, making a heavy surf on the rocks.
In particular, we will concentrate on the problems that these free-spawning animals face in the surf zone, since this challenging habitat is widespread and vastly different from the laboratory.
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