bodysurf

verb

body·surf ˈbä-dē-ˌsərf

bodysurfed; bodysurfing; bodysurfs

: to ride on a wave without a surfboard by planing on the chest and stomach

bodysurfer noun

Examples of bodysurf in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Guests can bodysurf off the coasts of California beaches, engage in yoga on the beach and have a day at the spa. —

Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2020 Watching bottlenose dolphins bodysurf off the coast of South Africa and racer snakes slither after iguanas never gets old. —

Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020 If the smallmouths weren’t biting on the Delaware River, there were always the catfish or a little riffle to bodysurf down in the summer. —

Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 11 May 2020 Sea lions will bodysurf in ocean waves and sometimes link into huge, fleshy rafts to drift. —

Sallie Tisdale, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019 In the 1980s, bodysurfing resurged, only to be gutted again by boogieboarding. —

Jamie Brisick, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2019 The two walked along the water and were even seen trying to bodysurf a few waves. —

Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 13 May 2018

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