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surfing

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Other sports, Communications
surf·ing /ˈsɜːfɪŋ $ ˈsɜːr-/ ●●○ noun [uncountable]  1 DSOthe activity or sport of riding over the waves on a special board 冲浪(运动) When we were in Hawaii, we went surfing every day. 我们在夏威夷时每天都去冲浪。4  See picture of 见图 WATER SPORTS2. TCLOOK FORthe activity of looking quickly through information on the Internet to find something that interests you 网上冲浪,浏览因特网 channel surfing
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surfingAnd 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.
surf·ing nounChineseSyllable
sport activity riding of Corpus the or over


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surfing
surfing /ˈsɜːfɪŋ $ ˈsɜːr-/ noun [uncountable]
1. the activity or sport of riding over the waves on a special board:
    When we were in Hawaii, we went surfing every day.
2. the activity of looking quickly through information on the Internet to find something that interests you
channel surfing


surf·ingBrE /ˈsɜːfɪŋ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈsɜːrfɪŋ/ 🔊 noun [uncountable]
the sport of riding on waves while standing on a narrow board called a surfboard 冲浪运动to go surfing去冲浪
the activity of looking at different things on the Internet in order to find sth interesting, or of changing between TV channels in order to find an interesting programme (互联网上)冲浪,漫游,浏览;换台(转换电视频道以寻找有趣节目)