What is another word for surfs?

Pronunciation: [sˈɜːfs] (IPA)

The word "surfs" is often associated with riding waves on a surfboard. However, there are several synonyms for this word that are used in different contexts. "Browses" is a synonym that can be used when someone is looking through content online. "Scans" is another synonym that can be used when someone is quickly looking through a document or article. "Glides" is a synonym that can be used when someone is moving effortlessly over a surface, such as a skater gliding over ice. "Skims" is a synonym that can be used when someone is quickly looking over information to get the main points. Overall, these synonyms for "surfs" provide more options for expressing similar actions.

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  • Independent

    • Proper noun, plural
      centers, AFCS, NCCS, CRCS, UNICS, CECS, IRCS, NSCS, centres.

What are the hypernyms for Surfs?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    outdoor activities, water activities, aquatic sports, Ocean activities, adventure sports, board sports.

Usage examples for Surfs

Whilst all on board were weighing these chances of destruction or of safety, the vessel's head had gone round off, and a few succeeding heavy surfs threw her again with her starboard quarter upon the rock, and whilst she was in this position, there appeared a possibility of getting some of the people on shore.
"Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849"
William O. S. Gilly
The boats employed on this business were manned by the Sirius's crew; so that every possible attention to prevent danger or accident was used: but, notwithstanding which, on the 17th of August, in what was considered as good landing, one of the boats, in coming into the passage, was overtaken by a succession of heavy surfs, which threw her on one of the reefs, where she parted in less than two minutes, and seven people were drowned.
"An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island"
John Hunter
In order to see how this work is, and has been, carried out, let us look at the results, as stated in the last annual report, that for 1864. The lifeboats of the Institution now number 132, and some of them were the means of saving no fewer than 417 lives during the past year; nearly the whole of them in dangerous circumstances, amidst high surfs, when no other description of boats could have been launched with safety.
"The Lifeboat"
R.M. Ballantyne

Related words: surfing game, surf lessons, surfboard

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