Surf is the region of breaking waves on a shoaling area of water such as a shoreline or reef. Surf or SURF may also refer to:

Commercial products

* Surf (detergent), a brand of laundry detergent made by Unilever

Computers and software

* "Surfing the Web", slang for exploring the

World Wide Web The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables Content (media), content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond Information technology, IT specialists and hobbyis ...

surf (web browser) surf is a minimalist web browser developed by suckless.org. The user interface does not include any graphical control elements; it is controlled via keyboard shortcuts or external tools, which may manipulate its behavior by setting its windo ...

, a lightweight web browser for Unix-like systems * ''Surf'' (video game), a 2020 video game included with

Microsoft Edge Microsoft Edge is a Proprietary Software, proprietary cross-platform software, cross-platform web browser created by Microsoft and based on the Chromium (web browser), Chromium open-source project, superseding Edge Legacy. In Windows 11, Edge ...

* SURF, an acronym for "

Speeded up robust features In computer vision, speeded up robust features (SURF) is a local feature detector and descriptor, with patented applications. It can be used for tasks such as object recognition, image registration, classification, or 3D reconstruction. It is ...

", a computer vision algorithm *

Counter-Strike surfing ''Counter-Strike'' surfing is a modded game mode based on the ''Counter-Strike'' series of first-person shooter video games. Consisting of custom-created obstacle course levels known as surf maps, players make use of a physics engine glitch to ...

, a custom game-mode for various Source engine video games

Education

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Within higher-education, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) are a common summer immersion experience which supplement research activities that occur during the academic year. Typically, these highly competitive undergraduate programs ...

, a common summer immersion experience in higher education which supplement research activities that occur during the academic year

Music

* ''Surf'' (Roddy Frame album), a 2002 album released by Roddy Frame * ''Surf'' (Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment album), a 2015 album by Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment *

Surf music Surf music (also known as surf rock, surf pop, or surf guitar) is a genre of rock music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Southern California. It was especially popular from 1958 to 1964 in two major forms. The first is inst ...

, a genre of popular music associated with surf culture * "Surf" (Mac Miller song), a 2020 song by Mac Miller

Places

* Surf, California, unincorporated community in Santa Barbara County near Lompoc * Surf station, passenger rail station served by Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner *

Sanford Underground Research Facility The Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), or Sanford Lab, is an underground laboratory in Lead, South Dakota. The deepest underground laboratory in the United States, it houses multiple experiments in areas such as dark matter and neutrino ...

, national laboratory for experiments conducted deep underground, in South Dakota

Popular culture

Surf culture Surf culture includes the people, language, fashion, and lifestyle surrounding the sport of surfing. The history of surfing began with the ancient Polynesians. That initial culture directly influenced modern surfing, which began to flourish ...

, the culture surrounding the sport of surfing

Ships

* , the name of more than one United States Navy ship

Sports

Surfing Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), 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. Waves suita ...

, a surface water sport * The

Atlantic City Surf The Atlantic City Surf were a professional minor league baseball team based in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Surf was most recently a member of the Can-Am League, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball. The Surf played its home gam ...

, a defunct professional baseball team that played in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the United States from 1998 to 2008

Other uses

Surf zone The surf zone or breaker zone is the nearshore part of a body of open water between the line at which the waves break and the shore. As ocean surface waves approach a shore, they interact with the bottom, wave shoaling, get taller and steeper, an ...

, the

foreshore The intertidal zone or foreshore is the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide; in other words, it is the part of the littoral zone within the tidal range. This area can include several types of Marine habitat, habitats ...

region where approaching

ocean surface wave In fluid dynamics, a wind wave, or wind-generated water wave, is a surface wave that occurs on the free surface of Body of water, bodies of water as a result of the wind blowing over the water's surface. The contact distance in the wind directi ...

s get taller and

break Break or Breaks or The Break may refer to: Time off from duties * Recess (break), time in which a group of people is temporarily dismissed from its duties * Break (work), time off during a shift/recess ** Coffee break, a short mid-morning rest ...

to form foamy/bubbly surface known as ''surf'' *

SURF (Stanford US-Russia Forum) Surf is the region of breaking waves on a shoaling area of water such as a shoreline or reef. Surf or SURF may also refer to: Commercial products * Surf (detergent), a brand of laundry detergent made by Unilever Computers and software * " ...

Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum Scotland's Regeneration Forum (SURF) is the independent regeneration forum for Scotland. It seeks to improve regeneration policy and practice and works closely with policy-makers in the Scottish Government and its agencies. The organisation was ...

, an urban renewal body *

, the underground laboratory *

SURFnet SURF (short for Samenwerkende Universitaire Rekenfaciliteiten, "Cooperating University Computing Facilities") is an organization that develops, implements and maintains the national research and education network (NREN) of the Netherlands. It opera ...

, the university computing organisation in the Netherlands