From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsurfingsurf‧ing /ˈsɜːfɪŋ $ ˈsɜːr-/ ●●○ noun [uncountable] 1 DSOthe activity or sport of riding over the waves on a special board When we were in Hawaii, we went surfing every day.2 TCLOOK FORthe activity of looking quickly through information on the Internet to find something that interests you → channel surfing
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surfing• And surfing is the most potent symbol - even stimulus - of that shift.• St Ives, 7 miles away, is an old fishing port, with an artists community, and good surfing.• But superficiality had crept into surfing, too.• He felt he had only come alive when he started surfing.• By the time he left Sydney surfing had taken root in another continent.• For us, surfing is real.• But what is beyond question is that, in the post-contact era, it was Hawaii that colonized other countries with surfing. 