Surf or SURF may 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), commonly known as the Web, is an information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet. Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web se ...

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

, a lightweight web browser for Unix-like systems * ''Surf'' (video game), a 2020 video game included with Microsoft Edge * SURF, an acronym for " Speeded up robust features", a computer vision algorithm

Education

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

Places

Surf, California Surf is an unincorporated area of Santa Barbara County, California, located along the Pacific coast within a publicly accessible area of Vandenberg Space Force Base west of the city of Lompoc. The site originally was established as a railroad ...

, 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 suitabl ...

, a surface water sport * The Atlantic City Surf, 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

foreshore The intertidal zone, also known as the foreshore, is the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide (in other words, the area within the tidal range). This area can include several types of habitats with various species of ...

region where approaching ocean surface waves 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) * Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum, an urban renewal body *

, the underground laboratory * SURFnet, the university computing organisation in the Netherlands