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单词 train surfing
释义

train surfing

English

Train surfing

Verb

train surfing

  1. present participle of train surf

Noun

train surfing (uncountable)

  1. (sports) The sport of riding on the roof, sides or back of a train.
    • 1999: Deborah Lupton, Risk - It is also evident in the words of a sixteen-year-old Australian boy discussing the pleasure of ‘train-surfing', or riding a moving train on its roof. [published in UK]
    • a2006: Mary Deyo, Jinx Magazine, read at on 14 May 2006 - In 1989 alone gruesome train surfing accidents killed 150 Brazilian kids and injured 170 more. ... Attempts to stop train surfing have proved ineffective. ... [published in USA]
    • 1998: Marc D Feldman, Jacqueline M Feldman, Stranger Than Fiction: When Our Minds Betray Us - "Subway surfing", "car surfing" and "train surfing" are new sports among adolescents in the United States, Brazil and Europe, for instance -- but with the thrill of hanging off the speeding vehicles has come the utterly predictable limb loss and death. [published in USA]
    • 1999: Infiltration, Infilnews 7, November 1999 read at on 22 May 2006 - The youth jumped on the platform attached to the train, dismounting a few minutes later. ... According to a Rotterdam paper: "In the Netherlands train surfing is not practiced regularly. In 1997 a French boy was killed when he tried to surf a Dutch train with his friend." [published in Netherlands and Canada]
    • 2002: BBC News, read at on 22 May 2006 - Tube death blamed on 'train surfing': A man killed in an accident at an underground station was reportedly seen trying to hang on to the side of a train. [published in UK]
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