Surf

Surf is the region of breaking waves on a shoaling area of water such as a shoreline or reef.

Surfy or SURF may also refer to:

Commercial products

• Surf (detergent), a brand of laundry detergent made by Unilever

Computers and software

• "Surfing the Web", slang for exploring the World Wide Web
• surf (web browser), a lightweight web browser for Unix-like systems
• Surf (video game), a 2020 video game included with Microsoft Edge
• SURF, an acronym for "Speeded up robust features", a computer vision algorithm
• Counter-Strike surfing, a custom game-mode for various Source engine video games

Education

• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, a common summer immersion experience in higher education which supplement research activities that occur during the academic year

Music

• Surf (Roddy Frame album), a 2002 album released by Roddy Frame
• Surf (Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment album), a 2015 album by Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment
• Surf music, a genre of popular music associated with surf culture
• "Surf" (Mac Miller song), a 2020 song by Mac Miller
• "Surf (feat. Gunna)", a 2019 Young Thug song from So Much Fun

Places

• Surf, California, unincorporated community in Santa Barbara County near Lompoc
• Surf station, passenger rail station served by Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner
• Sanford Underground Research Facility, national laboratory for experiments conducted deep underground, in South Dakota

Popular culture

• Surf culture, the culture surrounding the sport of surfing

Ships

• USS Surf, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

Sports

• Surfing, a surface water sport
• The Atlantic City Surf, a defunct professional baseball team that played in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the United States from 1998 to 2008

Other uses

• Surf zone, the foreshore region where approaching ocean surface waves get taller and break to form foamy/bubbly surface known as surf
• SURF (Stanford US-Russia Forum)
• Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum, an urban renewal body
• Sanford Underground Research Facility, the underground laboratory
• SURFnet, the university computing organisation in the Netherlands

See also

• Surfing (disambiguation)
• Serfdom
• Surf and turf
• Surf City (disambiguation)
• Surf clam (disambiguation)