wakeboarding
- noun
- /ˈweɪkˌbɔːrdɪŋ/
- Many people enjoy wakeboarding during the summer for some outdoor fun on the water.
Examples
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Wakeboarding is an exciting sport where participants ride a wakeboarding board over water while being towed by a boat.
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If your family prefers boating instead of hiking, take them out on the Jordanelle Reservoir for an afternoon of wakeboarding, waterskiing, or tubing.
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Right, the last day of my wakeboarding was four years ago.
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Is it hang gliding, wakeboarding or bungee jumping?
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For kids who love being yanked across the water on a board, there are three great wakeboarding venues in Bangkok.
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She has a water leg for swimming, showering, and wakeboarding, and an activity leg for daily wear and playing soccer.
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But yeah, today we're going to go back to that same house and we're going to go just chill by the pool and I guess go wakeboarding, paddle boarding and stuff like that.
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It will still be on the cool side for taking the plunge up north; only the brave and foolish will be wakeboarding and water skiing.
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The lake trout caught on Sept. 11 yielded just one of the four fingers he lost seven weeks earlier in a wakeboarding accident on the North Idaho lake.
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Windsurfing combines aspects of both sailing and surfing, along with certain athletic skills shared with other board sports like skateboarding, snowboarding, waterskiing, and wakeboarding.
Academic text (2009)
How Intense
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Etymology
Wakeboarding comes from the words wake and board. A 'wake' is the wave behind a moving boat and a 'board' is like a surfboard, so wakeboarding is riding a board on that wave.