foilboard

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noun

A surfboard with a hydrofoil that extends below the board into the water, causing the board to leave the surface of the water at various speeds.

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Meanings

nounfoilboard (plural foilboards)

plural foilboards

  1. A surfboard with a hydrofoil that extends below the board into the water, causing the board to leave the surface of the water at various speeds.
verbfoilboard (third-person singular simple present foilboards, present participle foilboarding, simple past and past participle foilboarded)

present singular third person foilboards · participle present foilboarding · participle past foilboarded · past foilboarded

  1. intransitiveTo surf using a foilboard.

    For decades, kitesurfers and, more recently, their foilboarding descendants have turned up at Crissy Field, a scruffy crescent of sand at the foot of the historic Presidio of San Francisco.

    2020 September 3, Guy Trebay, “Windjamming in the Bay”, in The New York Times

Origin

From foil + board.

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APA

foilboard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foilboard

MLA

“foilboard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foilboard. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “foilboard,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foilboard.

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