surf
noun /sɜːf/
  /sɜːrf/
 - [uncountable] large waves in the sea or ocean, and the white foam that they produce as they fall on the beach, on rocks, etc.
- the sound of surf breaking on the beach
 
Wordfinder- beach
 - coast
 - harbour
 - pier
 - sandbank
 - sea
 - shoreline
 - surf
 - tide
 - wave
 
Extra ExamplesTopics Geographyc1- The children splashed around in the surf.
 - dolphins riding the surf
 - the roar of distant surf
 - The sea lions lie near the breaking surf off the beaches.
 
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- crashing
 - pounding
 - big
 - …
 
- ride
 
- break
 - crash
 
- in the surf
 
- the roar of (the) surf
 
 - [singular] an act of going surfing
- He decided to go for a surf near Fremantle.
 - Sydney, surf capital of the world (= where the sport of surfing is very popular)
 
 
Word Originlate 17th cent.: apparently from obsolete suff, of unknown origin, perhaps influenced by the spelling of surge.