Surf

Noun

 * 1) Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.
 * 2) * 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
 * ...perhaps it was the look of the island, with its gray, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach...
 * 1) *1898,, Chapter 5
 * 'But when the surf fell enough for the boats to get ashore, and Greening held a lantern for me to jump down into the passage, after we had got the side out of the tomb, the first thing the light fell on at the bottom was a white face turned skyward.

Derived terms

 * surf line
 * surf rider noun

Verb

 * 1) To ride a wave, usually on a surfboard.
 * 2) To browse the Internet.

Adjectives for Surf
booming; roaring; boiling; raging; damaging; foamy; retreating; relentless; murderous; turmoiling.

Verbs for Surf
seethes; —sluices; —sprays; —spumes; -— surges ; —swashes; —swells; —washes.

Thesaurus
billow, bore, breakers, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, collar, comb, comber, dirty water, eagre, foam, froth, gravity wave, ground swell, head, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, lather, lift, lop, meringue, mousse, offscum, peak, popple, puff, riffle, ripple, rise, roll, roller, rough water, scend, scud, scum, sea, sea foam, send, soapsuds, souffle, spindrift, spoondrift, spray, spume, stinging, suds, surge, swell, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide wave, trough, tsunami, undulation, water wave, wave, wavelet, white horses, white water, whitecaps

Etymology
Maybe suffe, of uncertain origin.

Noun

 * Finnish: surffi
 * German:


 * Hungarian: partközeli tarajos hullám
 * Russian: прибой

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 衝浪, 冲浪
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: lainelautailla
 * French:
 * German: wellenreiten, surfen


 * Hebrew: גלש
 * Italian:, fare surf
 * Japanese: サーフイン
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: заниматься сёрфингом
 * Turkish: sörf yapmak


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: surffata
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hebrew: גלש
 * Italian:
 * Navajo:
 * Portuguese:

Derived terms

 * surfer noun

Derived terms

 * surfer, surfing, surfboard
 * silver surfer

Anagrams

 * furs

Noun

 * 1) surfing