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crowd surfing

or crowd-surfing

noun

  1. the act of being passed in a prone position over the heads of the audience, especially at a rock concert.


crowd surfing

noun

  1. the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

She jumps headfirst into the sea of overjoyed fans, with the intention of crowd surfing.

Morgan Milardo, managing director of the Berklee Popular Music Institute in Boston, said some venues will have signs that say “no mosh pits” or “no crowd surfing” — but perhaps signs that explicitly say “no throwing items at the stage” now need to be added to protect artists.

Howell said she had to look up the term “crowd surfing,” and said she was amazed that they had made it through the mob to the heart of the melee.

When the Bananas aren’t dancing, they’re wearing stilts, crowd surfing to the plate or singing karaoke on the field.

But those years were hardly a more innocent time, if all the shots of students swilling beers and puffing on cigarettes are any evidence — not to mention crowd surfing at club shows and wrestling half-nude at underground warehouse parties.

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