bodyboard

/ ˈbɒdɪˌbɔːd /

noun

1. Also called: boogie board. a surfboard that is shorter and blunter than the standard board and on which the surfer lies rather than stands

Example Sentences

Fall began surfing when he was nine, borrowing a bodyboard from his father, who was a swim teacher.

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"They told me that I will die," he says of his family's reaction to his taking his makeshift bodyboard to Praia do Norte, the beach where the biggest waves break.

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Its first board, the Beater, could ride like a surfboard or be used as a bodyboard or skimboard after taking off the fins.

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The first soft-top came out in the 1970s when Tom Morey, who had a bodyboard factory, and Mike Doyle, a surfer, collaborated on creating a surfboard, said Matt Warshaw, a surf historian and author of “The Encyclopedia of Surfing.”

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Last year, a man was riding a bodyboard in Morro Bay when a great white shark attacked him in what is believed to be the first fatal shark attack in San Luis Obispo County in 18 years.

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