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bod·y·surf

 (bŏd′ē-sûrf′)
intr.v. bod·y·surfed, bod·y·surf·ing, bod·y·surfs Sports
To ride the waves to shore without a surfboard.

bod′y·surf′er n.
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The International Surfing Association (ISA), a worldwide group for bodysurfing, acquainted instructive courses with increment the prominence of bodyboarding.
Matt Wetschler was bodysurfing at Ocean Beach in San Francisco when he went for a wave and didn't come back up.
"It's easy--when you know how!" we proclaimed in our January 1926 guide to mastering the sport, "Rough Riders of the Surf." We helped readers learn how--as we would eventually do for bodysurfing, snorkeling, scuba diving, stand-up paddleboarding, and even submerging (safely, in cages) to snap selfies with the great white sharks of Baja California's Guadalupe Island.
You also can invite her to go swimming--there's no surfing the web when you're bodysurfing waves.
He discovered bodysurfing about five years ago and found that handplaning (a practise thought to have started with kids in Polynesia using pieces of driftwood) made such a difference to the experience: "You can lean down and can get your body up and out of the water, and then you are just racing across the waves - I instantly fell in love!"
This coupled with a separate accident permanently damaging his shoulder while bodysurfing resulted in him requiring assistants to help in his work.
"I was one happy guy, having been able to celebrate my first visit to the beach in years - and my first visit to Lane County's southwest corner - by bodysurfing on such an isolated stretch of the coast, and all the time within view of both gray whales and a harbor seal," he ended the essay.
Then they tried some bodysurfing. She joined in at a distance.
He was known to be engaged in various sports such as bodysurfing, mountain biking, and sailing.
I was bodysurfing in the water in the second, third year I was here.
But if bodysurfing or dancing on the tables in ski boots to dodgy Europop isn't your scene, then there is lots more entertainment on offer, as I discovered on my latest visit.
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