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Definition of Surf

Surf

The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.

The bottom of a drain.

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Beach, Bottom, Drain, Of, Sea, Shore, Sloping, Swell, The, Upon, Which

Surf Quotations

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.
Geoffrey Rush

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.
John Millington Synge

You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put Don in several of my movies.
Tim Conway

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
Alan Alda

I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy.
Michelle Rodriguez

The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more.
Michelle Rodriguez

The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.
Dick Dale

I got to learn to surf.
Sheryl Crow

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.
Brian May

I love physical sunblocks with zinc. When I used to surf, I'd sometimes tuck a bottle of sunscreen into my wet suit sleeve - when you're in the water having a great time, you're not thinking about running out to put on more sunblock.
Carolyn Murphy

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.
William Bligh

Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five feet of water, going to surf, and there was this big ol' freakin' leopard shark... I'm looking at him and I'm thinking, 'OK, he won't hurt me.'
Timothy Olyphant

I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!
Lee Ann Womack

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.
John Fogerty

Well I'm a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I'm an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn't give me much free time to surf these days.
Stephen Collins

I also love to surf the Net and talk on the phone with friends.
Kiana Tom

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.
Thomas Haden Church

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.
Kary Mullis

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.
John Ashcroft

I'm just a glutton for spas and messages. And I love to surf and hike.
Carolyn Murphy

If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.
Ricky Williams

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.
Ernest Shackleton

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.
Rod Taylor

Well, maybe surf one time; I think it would be fun to catch a wave just once.
Crystal Gayle

When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
Katarina Witt

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Surf Translations

surf in German is Brandung
surf in Spanish is surf

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