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wakeboarding

wakeboarding

1 4.1
A sport where a person rides a board on water while pulled by a boat
  • noun
  • /ˈweɪkˌbɔːrdɪŋ/
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  • Many people enjoy wakeboarding during the summer for some outdoor fun on the water.

Examples

  • Wakeboarding is an exciting sport where participants ride a wakeboarding board over water while being towed by a boat.

  • 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.

  • Is it hang gliding, wakeboarding or bungee jumping?

  • 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.

    Academic text (2011)
  • 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.

  • 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

kiteboarding
1 4.0
surfing
93 1.3
wakeboarding
1 4.1
waterskiing
1 3.3

Surface Forms

wakeboarding singular
wakeboardings plural

Morphology

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

The noun is transparently formed from the activity verb 'wakeboard' with the regular '-ing' suffix.

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.