channel-surf
verb informal
Another term for channel-hop (sense 1).Linda picks up a week-old sales paper and looks through it for good coupons, while Annie turns on the TV and channel-surfs through the four stations that come in....
- I was listening to the album on headphones in my parent's car, sitting in the backseat, when my dad turned the radio on and proceeded to restlessly channel-surf.
- Only while watching a Major League Baseball game can you constantly channel-surf and never miss a thing.
Derivatives
channel-surfer
- For example, channel-surfers will find the 921's program-listing grid easier to navigate, with buttons on the remote to skip ahead in 24-hour chunks.
- Airing every Saturday from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Discovery Channel, it might be just what channel-surfers needed.
- I'm not sure if the film was meant to appeal to multi-taskers or channel-surfers, but the overall effect lands somewhere in between.
channel-surfing
/ noun ...- In other words, channel-surfing will become a just-in-time service, where you request and access each video stream on demand every time you flip to the next channel.
- So how did I account for such channel-surfing in the diary?
- But on a recent Saturday morning, I found myself channel-surfing for about 15 minutes.