surfing

What does surfing mean?

surfing means "the sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the crest of a wave".

How many syllables are in surfing?

surfing has 2 syllables: sur-fing. The stress falls on "sur". In IPA it is /ˈsɝfɪŋ/.

What is another word for surfing?

Close synonyms include surfboarding, surfriding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is surfing a common word?

surfing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for surfing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.