shortboard

Definitions

noun surfing A type of surfboard which is about 6 to 7 feet long (boards are always measured in feet, even in metric countries), and with a tapered pointy nose.

Such a board is "short" in comparison to a longboard and the longer style boards which preceded the shortboard historically.

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I was just starting to get it—around the time I decided I would step up, or down, to a shortboard.

Kook Peter Heller 2010
Now, on this hot August evening, he disappeared inside his shop and came back out with a freshly glassed and sanded shortboard.

Kook Peter Heller 2010
He decided on his shortboard, but I unsheathed the gun, the 7–6 single-fin Bruno had made for just this.

Kook Peter Heller 2010
After James left, I retired the 6–4 for a while, the one with four fins, and pulled out a standard 6–7 shortboard thruster, which was faster.

Kook Peter Heller 2010
A few days later, I paddled up to a Mexican sitting on his shortboard staring gravely out to sea.

Kook Peter Heller 2010
A shortboard, as I was learning every day out at the Cliffs, demanded a lot more effort than a longboard.

Kook Peter Heller 2010
A shortboard just requires some different techniques.

Kook Peter Heller 2010
Neither longboard nor shortboard, it was eight feet long and as oval as a platter.

Kook Peter Heller 2010
Tiny eight-year-old on the smallest shortboard on earth.

Kook Peter Heller 2010
I ran into the shallow water, hugged the face of the first protecting boulder like a SWAT trooper, holding a shortboard instead of a rifle.

Kook Peter Heller 2010