paddleboarding
noun
paddleboarding is a noun meaning “A water sport in which a participant is propelled by a swimming motion using their arms while lying or kneeling on a paddleboard or surfboard in the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-D-D-L-E-B-O-A-R-D-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does paddleboarding mean?
noun
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A water sport in which a participant is propelled by a swimming motion using their arms while lying or kneeling on a paddleboard or surfboard in the ocean.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paddleboarding?
Paddleboarding appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Paddleboarding in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense aquatic sport:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | paddleboard, tabla remo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does paddleboarding come from?
From paddleboard + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).