the sport of sailing standing up on a sailboard that is equipped with a mast, sail, and wishbone boom
Also called: boardsailing, sailboarding
sailboarding in American English
(ˈseilˌbɔrdɪŋ, -ˌbour-)
noun
windsurfing
Derived forms
sailboarder
noun
Word origin
[1975–80; sailboard + -ing1]This word is first recorded in the period 1975–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bench press, family therapy, gridlock, noogie, surrogate mother-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”
Examples of 'sailboarding' in a sentence
sailboarding
There'd be a day of horse riding and another day of sailboarding on the beach.