1798 E. Townsend Diary 30 Aug. in Hawaiian Hist. Soc. Reprints (1888) 29 They sometimes make use of surf-boards. The surf-board is about their own length and floats them lighter.

c1826 Richards in P. H. Gosse Ocean (1849) vi. 285 Those who were standing on the beach saw the surf-board..floating on the water.

1874 W. M. Davis Nimrod of Sea xxvi. 310 The surf-board..was placed lengthwise under the breast as they rode on the crest of the wave.

1923 W. H. Rice Hawaiian Legends 69 He could gracefully ride the surf board, standing or kneeling, and come to land without the spray even touching his body.

1962 Coast to Coast 1961–2 63 He wished he could stand up and walk away from Pammie and go out with the surfboard riders.

2009 T. Pynchon Inherent Vice i. 6 This picture of Doc's showed a Southern California beach that never was—palms, bikini babes, surfboards, the works.

1968 Listener 80 330/3 It is not enough to be just the best..surfboard-shaper, you must be the ultimate craftsman.

2015 Huntington Beach (Calif.) Independent (Nexis) 6 Aug. Clark Foam was one of the biggest surf companies. At its height, it produced 90% of the blanks used by surfboard shapers in the United States.

1908 Friend (Honolulu, Hawaii) Apr. 5/1 Having learned to surf board here in a former visit, he is also stimulating interest in this king of sports.

1938 E. Hemingway Fifth Column (1939) iii. iv. 103 Or what about Malindi where you can surfboard on the beach.

1962 M. McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy 248 (heading) Heidegger surf-boards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave.

2003 Church Times 19 Dec. 40/3 Ralph..sailed and surf-boarded into his 70s.