foilboard
English
Etymology
foil + board
Noun
foilboard (plural foilboards)
- A surfboard with a hydrofoil that extends below the board into the water, causing the board to leave the surface of the water at various speeds.
Verb
foilboard (third-person singular simple present foilboards, present participle foilboarding, simple past and past participle foilboarded)
- (intransitive) To surf using a foilboard.
- 2020 September 3, Guy Trebay, “Windjamming in the Bay”, in The New York Times:
- For decades, kitesurfers and, more recently, their foilboarding descendants have turned up at Crissy Field, a scruffy crescent of sand at the foot of the historic Presidio of San Francisco.
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Spanish
Noun
foilboard m (plural foilboards)
- foilboard
- 2017 February 1, “Obama desafía al multimillonario sobre las olas”, in Frontera.info:
- El último día Branson recorrió 50 metros en su foilboard y se mostró muy contento de ver a Obama recorriendo 100 metros en su kiteboard.
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