Meaning & use
Surfboarding
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The sport or activity of riding waves while standing on a surfboard.
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They spent every summer morning surfboarding off the coast of California.
Learning surfboarding takes patience, balance, and a healthy respect for the ocean.
A note on using this word
Though largely replaced by the shorter "surfing" in modern usage, "surfboarding" was the more common term in the early 20th century.
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surfing
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