surfing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: surfing	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for surfing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
surfing n the sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the crest of a wave Synonym(s): surfing, surfboarding, surfriding
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
surfing ("Internet surfing") Used by analogy to describe the ease with which an expert user can use the waves of information flowing around the {Internet} to get where he wants. The term became popular in the early 1990s as access to the {Internet} became more widespread and tools such as {World-Wide Web} {browser}s made its use simpler and more pleasant. (1995-01-05)