Surfing is a long-established sport and so the vast is surfing glossary. You will find avid surfers from different continents using some singular phrases that might not be familiar to those riding waves on the other end of planet. But yet, mentioned below are few widely used surfing lingos that can help novice surfers in understanding this amazing sport.

Related to People:

1. Grom or Grommet: An overzealous young surfer.
2. Kook: A want-to-be surfer or a novice surfer.

Related to the Surfboard:

1. Blank: A foam block used to fashion a surfboard.
2. Deck: The top surface of the board where surfer stands.
3. Ding: A dent or hole in the deck caused by a wipeout.
4. Fin or Fins: Inserts on the bottom rear of the board installed to stabilize the board.
5. Leash: Rope attached to the rear of the board and the surfers back ankle; this is to don’t let the surfboard washed in towards the shore causing annoyance or danger to fellow surfers.
6. Nose: The front end of the board.
7. Quiver: Repertory or set of boards; usually contains surfboards fashioned to ride different types of waves.
8. Rails: Edges or borders of the surfboard.
9. Tail: The back end of the surfboard.

Related to Water and Surface:

1. Break: Where waves break at beach.
2. Blown out: When strong winds make waves choppy.
3. Bomb: A large wave that is exceptionally seen in the session.
4. Choppy: Rough waves led by strong winds, by and large 12 knots or more velocity winds.
5. Closeout: When the waves break all at once as opposed to breaking across. One cannot surf on these waves.
6. Face: Part of the wave that is not broken.
7. Flat: ‘No waves’ condition, inapt for surfing.
8. Glassy: In absence of winds when the waves and ocean surface become immensely smooth and sleek.
9. Gnarly: Outsized, strong and difficult waves and situations unsafe to surf.
10. Line-up: Area alongside impact zone where most of the waves start breaking making it perfect site to catch the waves and so the surfers take up here waiting for waves to break.
11. Outside: ‘Out-the-back’ for Australian surfers, Outside is further out from the line-up where surfers keep watching set of waves and warn those in line-up area as the new set of waves approaches.
12. Set: A group of waves that approaches the line-up.
13. Lulls: Time flanked by two sets of waves.
14. Shoulder: Unbroken fraction of breaking wave.
15. Surf's up: Denoting apt conditions and waves for surfing.
16. Swell: Strong waves sets caused by storm, distant in the ocean. Swell start breaking at shallow water.

Related to Surfing Technique and Maneuvers:

1. Aerial: Riding the board briefly into the air above the wave, landing back upon the wave, and continuing to ride
2. Bail: To step off of the board to avoid a wipe out.
3. Bottom turn: First spin at the bottom of the wave.
4. Carve: Turns
5. Cutback: Turning back towards the breaking part of the wave.
6. Drop in: Riding on the same wave which another surfer is already riding. Discourtesy!
7. Duck dive: Coined by South Africans. It means diving under an approaching wave by pushing the nose (front) of surfboard underwater.
8. Fade: Drop in with intention to get to the breaking part of the wave and surfing in the same direction wave is breaking.
9. Fins-free: Quick turn when fins of surfboard glide off the crest of the wave.
10. Floater: Riding over the breaking part of wave, and dropping back on to the wave-face.
11. Goofy foot: Surfing with the right foot forward on the board.
12. Hang Heels: Putting the heels out over the edge of a long-board.
13. Off the Top: Turn on the lip of wave.
14. Pearl: Wiping-out by digging the front of board underwater mistakenly.
15. Pop-up: In a single jump, going from lying to standing on a board.
16. Pump: Riding on up or down carving to get speed down the line.
17. Turtle Roll: Up-side-down turning over a long-board, pulling front-board through a breaking part of wave to paddle out to the line-up.
18. Hit the Lip: Riding on up to hit the peak of the wave.
19. Snap: A sharp spin off the peak of wave.
20. Soul Arch: Curve back to show casual control over a wave.
21. Stall: Attempt to decelerate by putting weight to the rear of the board or lifting the front of board with a view to stay in the tubular waters all through the tube ride.
22. Switch-foot: Veteran surfers’ skill to surf by both the ways; regular foot or goofy foot.
23. Take-off: Beginning of ride.
24. Tandem surfing: Duo rides one board.
25. Getting barreled: Tube riding or riding inside the curved and hollow wave.

Related to Accidents:

1. Wash Cycle or ‘Over the falls’: A wipeout wherein surfer fall off or pitched, over the wave lip. Also known as "sucked over".
2. Wipe out: When surfer fall off or is thrown away or knocked off, the surfboard while riding a wave.