bellyboard
/ˈbɛlɪbɔːd
/noun
A small surfboard ridden in a prone position: the kids were up early to hit the surf, decked out with buckets, spades, and bellyboards...
- Not all surfboard manufacturers made Bellyboards.
- The bellyboard is painstakingly hand sanded and polished to a beautiful sheen using linseed oil, turps and beeswax.
- These beautiful precursors to the bellyboard were also known as "hotel boards" because they were loaned by the hotels to their guests for personal use.
Derivatives
bellyboarder
- Wetsuits are banned and the retro look is de rigueur at the contest where there is a prize for the most nattily dressed bellyboarder.
- Here's to all the bellyboarders braving the rain today down at Chapelporth.
- The bellyboarder catches the wave by holding on to the nose of the bellyboard with one hand and paddling hard with the other hand.
bellyboarding
- A record-breaking number of brave folk donned vintage bathing suits to go bellyboarding in Cornwall for the world championships.
- Watching him made me want to try bellyboarding.
- This photo from The Christie Archive shows Agatha & Archie Christie all suited up and ready for a spot of bellyboarding and surf bathing during their trip to South Africa in 1922.