bodyboardern.
/ˈbɒdɪˌbɔːdə/, U.S. /ˈbɑdiˌbɔrdər/ A person who rides a bodyboard, esp. regularly or competitively.
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1983 Surfer Feb. 88/2 Competition Bulletin... 1982 East Coast Amateur Surfing Championships... Women Bodyboarders.
1984 Surfer Jan. 11/2 I'm looking for a companion for a surf-safari to Indonesia... Anyone may reply (bodyboarders..knee boarders etc.).
1991 A. Martin Walking on Water (1992) xxxi. 119 Surfers despised bodyboarders for not standing up on their boards: they weren't walking on water, they were wallowing in it.
2002 Ilawarra (New S. Wales) Mercury (Nexis) 25 Jan. 50 Only the top 24 bodyboarders are being invited to compete on this year's tour.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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