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means A water sport in which you ride a board fitted with a single sail, steering by tilting and angling that sail to catch the wind.

from A transparent compound of "wind" and "surfing" that arose alongside the sport itself in the latter half of the 20th century. "Wind" descends from Old English "wind," a Germanic word with cousins across Europe (German "Wind," Latin "ventus"), all tracing back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to blow." "Surf" is the murkier half — it appears in English around the 17th century, possibly an alteration of "suff," an older word for the rush of the sea, with no firmly agreed ancestor. "Windsurfer" was in fact an early trademark for the boards, and like "escalator" and "zipper" the brand name slipped loose and became the everyday word for the whole pursuit.