foilboard

English

Etymology

From foil +‎ board.

Noun

foilboard (plural foilboards)

  1. 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)

  1. (intransitive) To surf using a foilboard.
    • 2020 September 3, Guy Trebay, “Windjamming in the Bay”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      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.

Spanish

Noun

foilboard m (plural foilboards)

  1. foilboard
    • 2017 February, “Obama desafía al multimillonario sobre las olas”, in Frontera.info‎[2]:
      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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