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body-surf, v.
Brit. |ˈbɒdɪsəːf|, U.S. |ˈbɑdiˌsərf|
[‹ body n. + surf v., probably after body surfing n.]
intr. To ride a breaking wave (or occas. a river current) without a surfboard, usually by holding the body rigid.
1939Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 21 Feb. 7 d/4, I went body-surfing at Makupuu with Walter Macfarlane, one of the most skillful men at the sport in the territory. 1967Time 29 Dec. 16/1 Holt fished from the rocks, body-surfed in the great Pacific waves that pound southern Australia's Morning Peninsula. 1970J. Dickey Deliverance iii. 151 Body-surfing and skidding along, I realized that we could never have got through this stretch in canoes. 2004Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 30 Dec. i. 6/4 The boys headed to Waimea Bay Beach Park and its beautiful stretch of sand on the north shore of Oahu. Some of the boys swam, and others body-surfed.
Derivatives. body-surfer n.
1939Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 21 Feb. 7 d/4 Little waves won't do... *Body-surfers scorn them and wouldn't be caught in them. 1963J. Pollard Austral. Surfrider 14 Most beaches have special areas marked out for board riders, so keep clear of the sections reserved for body surfers. 2001Independent 18 Aug. (Time Off section) 1/3 By July, the sea is warm enough to swim in and Fire Island becomes a body-surfer's paradise. |