Surfing

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  surfing
       n : the sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the
           crest of a wave [syn: {surfboarding}, {surfriding}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "surfing":
     Australian crawl, aquaplaning, aquatics, backstroke, balneation,
     bathe, bathing, breaststroke, butterfly, crawl, diving, dog paddle,
     fin, fishtail, flapper, flipper, floating, natation, sidestroke,
     surfboarding, swim, swimming, treading water, wading,
     waterskiing
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  surfing
       
          ("Internet surfing") Used by analogy to describe the ease with
          which an expert user can use the waves of information flowing
          around the {Internet} to get where he wants.  The term became
          popular in the early 1990s as access to the {Internet} became
          more widespread and tools such as {World-Wide Web} {browser}s
          made its use simpler and more pleasant.
       
          (1995-01-05)