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to wakeboarding

to wakeboarding

4.1
To ride a board on water while a boat pulls you
  • verb
  • /ˈweɪkˌbɔːrdɪŋ/
translation icon : hacer wakeboard
  • She learned to wakeboard during her summer vacation at the water sports camp.

Examples

  • She wakeboards every weekend with her friends.

  • Many people enjoy wakeboarding because it combines elements of surfing and waterskiing.

  • We spent the afternoon wakeboarding behind the speedboat on the lake.

  • I love to wakeboard during the summer.

  • We spent the afternoon wakeboarding behind the speedboat on the lake.

  • She learned to wakeboard during her summer vacation at the water sports camp.

  • Many people enjoy wakeboarding because it combines elements of surfing and waterskiing.

Synonyms

to water ski
vsto wakeboarding
4 3.4

To glide across water while being pulled by a boat

uses a single board rather than two separate narrow boards
to aquaplane
vsto wakeboarding
7.9

To ride on a wide board a boat pulls behind it across the water

is pulled by a boat or cable rather than usually only by motorboat

How Intense

to surf
89 2.1
to wakeboarding
4.1
waterskiing
1 3.3

Surface Forms

wakeboard infinitive
wakeboarded past
wakeboarded past participle
wakeboarding present participle
wakeboards third person singular

Morphology

wakeboarding = wakeboard (transparent) = wake + board + ing

The present-participle/gerund form is produced by adding '-ing' to the verb 'wakeboard', so the relation is regular and transparent.

Etymology

Wakeboard comes from the words wake and board. A 'wake' is the wave behind a moving boat and a 'board' is like a surfboard, so to 'wakeboard' is to ride a board on that wake while being pulled by a boat.