noseride

English

Alternative forms

  • nose-ride

Etymology

nose + ride

Verb

noseride (third-person singular simple present noserides, present participle noseriding, simple past noserode, past participle noseridden)

  1. (intransitive, surfing) To manoeuvre a surfboard from the front end.
    • 2008, Tim Winton, Breath, Picador UK Paperback edition 2008, p.71:
      We strewed the contents of the box across the bench and clawed through them to find other images of Sando. There was even an old picture of him as a jug-eared kid in sandshoes, noseriding a longboard with his back arched and his arm and head thrown back like a matador.
    • 2009 July 14, Joshua Robinson, “Going Beyond the Waves to Reshape an Experience”, in New York Times:
      The idea behind the shape, reminiscent of an hourglass, is to emphasize noseriding and tailriding for recreational surfers.

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