Wave rider

Usage examples of surfer.

Langdon rocketed downward, on the edge of a billowing shroud of light, feeling like a surfer trying to outrun a thousand-foot tidal wave.

The big surfer had a heavy antique frag rifle cradled in his arms, Tres hefted her blaster left-handed to make room for the Kalashnikov solid-load in her right.

The traffic was bumper-to-bumper on Alii Drive, jammed up by a crowd of thugs who had swarmed onto the road to stomp the driver of a motorcycle that had gone out of control and plowed into a gang of surfers.

It was a Baby-G this time--the new one--and when you pressed the backlight button, a little surfer came up on one of the displays.

I snap my right leg back around frontwards, get down in a squat like a tubing surfer, and careen along two feet from the car doors like a little cannonball.

Short of being a professional surfer or a bong test pilot for the Rastafarian air force, Kona thought he had found the perfect job.

The story reported a terrible wipeout by celebrity surfer Cooley Claymore, known to his fans as Cool.

Bill and the surfers made at androids were sometimes mistaken for comments about the owners.

Eventually the surfers succeeded in getting the motorcycle maniacs kicked off the beach permanently.

If a surfer visits sites which deal with aberrant sex and nuclear physics in the same session - what to make of it?

Were they among the surfers and post-hippies she was passing on the street?

There was quite a mix of people here post-hippies, high-tech start-up folks, transients, surfers, college kids.

She was a quick study, enthusiastic about catching the surfers on film as they raced toward shore, great plumes of spray behind them.

When a comet strike in the Pacific sends a tsunami rolling toward the coast of California, surfers grab their boards and head out to surf the big one.

Today, surfers who surf the World Wide Web as well as the waves can read up-to-date satellite and ocean buoy data about waves hundreds of miles from their beaches.