to body-surf
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6.3
- phrasal verb
- /ˈbɑdi sɜrf/
:
surfear con el cuerpo
- I've been caught in rip tides body surfing while growing up in SoCal.
So we go back out and we're body surfing and he and he just, you know, you know, just hauling your body out each back and forth is a lot of work, right?
- So we go back out and we're body surfing and he and he just, you know, you know, just hauling your body out each back and forth is a lot of work, right?
Examples
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In 2001, a few weeks before September 11, I body-surfed my last wave after eight hours of frolicking in the water.
Blog text (20) -
Got to take him hiking, or at least get him body surfing again and maybe snorkeling!
Blog text (25) -
Must stop now to go body surf with the great whites.
Blog text (5) -
Just say, "This is body surfing."
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It reminds me of when I used to body-surf in the Southern California area.
Blog text (27) -
So we go back out and we're body surfing and he and he just, you know, you know, just hauling your body out each back and forth is a lot of work, right?
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Also popular are body surfing, knee boarding, and skim boarding.
Academic text (1998) -
He took me body surfing in the breakers off Shoreline Drive, bullying me to get up and do it again no matter how many times the waves sent me sprawling.
Fiction book (1994) -
She caught the next breaker and body-surfed into shore.
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Look, I'm body surfing now at the beach!
Synonyms
To ride waves in the sea using only your body without a board
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Body-surf is formed from body and surf, so imagine riding the 'top of a wave' using only your body and no board. So to body-surf means to move on a wave moved by your own body, like a simple kind of surfing.