🌊 A wave sport 🌊 To ride waves

to bodysurfing

1 3.9

To ride waves in the sea using only your body without a board

verb
/ˈbɑːdiˌsɜːrfɪŋ/

: hacer bodysurf

We spent the afternoon bodysurfing at the beach, catching wave after wave.

Examples

He loves bodysurfing at the beach.
Are you going bodysurfing this weekend?
He learned bodysurfing before ever trying to use a surfboard.
Many people enjoy bodysurfing because it requires no special equipment.
We spent the afternoon bodysurfing at the beach, catching wave after wave.
He learned bodysurfing before ever trying to use a surfboard.
Many people enjoy bodysurfing because it requires no special equipment.

Synonyms

to body-surf

vsto bodysurfing

2 6.3

To ride a wave using only your body while lying on the water

is the modern single word spelling for the same activity

How Equipped

surfing

115 1.3

to bodysurfing

1 3.9

Surface Forms

bodysurf infinitive

bodysurfed past

bodysurfed past participle

bodysurfing present participle

bodysurfs third person singular

Morphology

bodysurfing = body + surfing (transparent) = body + surf + ing

Formed by combining 'body' with 'surfing' (surf + -ing); the verb sense is a straightforward verbal use of the compound activity term.

Etymology

Bodysurfing joins body and surf ('to ride waves'), so as a verb it means to ride a wave using only your body and no board. That's why to bodysurf is to move with the wave without any surfboard.