Etymology

surfing

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Today it means: The pastime or sport of riding surf on a surfboard. Full definition →

English surf ← Middle English suffe?
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The story

  1. Middle Englishsuffe?
  2. Englishsuff?
  3. Englishsurf
  4. English todaysurfing

From surf + -ing.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.