Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer, uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore
. The sport requires waves suitable for surfing, which are primarily found on ocean shores, but can also be found in standing waves in the open ocean, in lakes, in rivers in the form of a tidal bore, or in wave pools
. There are several types of boards used in surfing, and other types of surfing include bodyboarding, kneeboarding, surf matting, and using foils
. In addition to the sport of surfing, the word "surf" can also refer to the swell of the sea that breaks upon the shore, the foam, splash, and sound of breaking waves, or to search haphazardly, as for information on a computer network or an interesting program on television
