Skimboarded

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have glided across the surface of water while riding a small board designed for such activity
2. To have performed a recreational sport involving running along the beach and then jumping onto a board to slide on waves
3. To have engaged in a water sport that requires balance and skill on a thin board, typically in shallow surf conditions

Etymology: Skimboarding is the sport, and "skimboarded" is simply its past tense and past participle, so the story belongs to the base word. "Skimboard" is a plain compound of "skim" and "board." "Skim" comes from Middle English and originally meant to move lightly over a surface, which is the same idea behind skipping a stone across water. "Board" is the old word for a flat piece of timber, here used for the thin wooden or fibreglass plank the rider slides on. The sport is named for the motion it imitates. Riders run down the beach, toss a thin board onto the wet sand or shallow water just ahead of an incoming wave, and then leap on and glide across the shallows, skimming the surface much as a flat stone bounces across a pond. The combination of two plain English words describes that action directly, with no borrowing or invented term involved.

Synonyms: glided, skated, surfaced, skimmed