surf

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. sea, waves, breakers, rollers, whitecaps, white horses, billows, surge, spume, sea-foam, froth, spindrift, spray. See water, agitation.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. waves, breakers, breaking waves, foam, froth, spindrift, rollers, combers; see also ocean , tide , wave 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

I

n.

waves, breakers, rollers, combers, spindrift, seaspray, swells, foam, swash, riptide.

WORD FIND

• common wave with convex back: plunger

• gray-crested waves: graybeards

• hollow between waves: trough

• series of waves: train

• sound: rote, swash, crash, thunder, lap

see beach, ocean

II

v.

ride the waves, *hang five, *hang ten, cruise, flip channels, channel surf, explore.

WORD FIND

• fall off: wipe out

• ride under a breaking wave: *shoot the tube, *shoot the curl

• shorts: baggies, jams

• show off: *hotdog

• surf without a board: body surf