All articles starting with S

Surf Gang

Surf Gang is a New York record label and music collective founded by producer Evilgiane with Eera and Harrison, starting as a 2017 skate crew; known for At Least We Tried (2022) and plugg-influenced underground rap.

Surf Harmony

Surf Harmony is a surf school founded in 2009 by Morgan Ménez at Plage de Longchamp, Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, Brittany; the first surf school of the Côte d'Émeraude and Ille-et-Vilaine, FFS-labeled, offering surf, SUP, bodyboard lessons and rental.

Surf Life Saving Australia

Surf Life Saving Australia is Australia's peak coastal water safety, drowning prevention, and rescue authority, a volunteer federation founded in 1907 that has performed nearly 750,000 rescues.

Surf lifesaving

Surf lifesaving: volunteer beach patrol and rescue movement founded at Bondi, Sydney, in 1907, using the bronze medallion, red and yellow flags, and surf sport; governed internationally by the International Life Saving Federation since 1993.

Surf music

Surf music, also called surf rock, is a rock style from early 1960s Southern California known for reverb-heavy guitar instrumentals and the Beach Boys' vocal harmonies.

Surf Pro Cold Hawaii

Surf Pro Cold Hawaii is a Danish surf shop and water sports school in Klitmøller and Vorupør, Thy, at the heart of Cold Hawaii's 31 surf spots; it teaches surfing, wingfoil, windsurfing, and SUP, rents equipment, and runs webcams.

Surf Rentals

Surf rentals: commercial hire of surfboards, wetsuits, bodyboards, and SUPs by the hour to week, from beach shops, surf schools, wave pools like URBNSURF Sydney, and app-based services like Fin, with deposits and damage fees.

Surf School Blue Wave Llanes

Blue Wave Escuela de Surf, a surf and paddle surf school in Llanes, Asturias, based at Playa de Vidiago; small groups, lifesaving-experienced instructors, equipment rental, environmental beach-cleanup initiatives.

Surf Shack (osm node/10262390314)

Surf Shack, OSM node 10262390314, is an indoor FlowRider surfing venue at 13208 Touchstone View, Polaris Point, Colorado Springs; a $3.8 million, 12,000 sq ft facility that soft-opened July 2026. Distinct from the Windansea landmark and other namesake businesses.

Surf ski

Surf ski (surfski): a long, narrow sit-on-top paddle craft from surf lifesaving, now raced in ICF Canoe Ocean Racing; open self-draining cockpit, wing paddle, under-stern rudder, 5.8–6.4 m, 8–20 kg.

Surf Spot Sealinks

Surf Spot Sealinks (Little Buddha beach) is a year-round beginner beach break near Mui Can Giay, Mui Ne, Phan Thiet, Vietnam, at 10.93683 N, 108.1839 E, with monsoon-driven swell, 27-31 C water, shore entry, and A-frame waves.

Surf Wala

Surf Wala, the first surf school in Goa, founded 2011 by Jonathan "Jono" Young on Arambol Beach, North Goa; ISA-certified, merged with the Surf Club guesthouse in 2020, teaching beginners on gentle seasonal waves.

Surf Welle

Surf Welle (German, "surf wave"): artificial surfable wave, usually a standing wave ridden in place. Landmark example: UNIT Surf Pool at Surf Langenfeld, world's first standing lake wave, opened March 2018, 8 m wide, up to 1.60 m high.

Surf zone

The surf zone is the nearshore region of the ocean where incoming waves break, extending from the breaker line to the beach; higher waves widen it.

Surf's Up (album)

Surf's Up (album), also issued as Landlocked during production, is the Beach Boys' 1971 Brother/Reprise studio album; its title track revives the abandoned Smile sessions, it reached No. 29 in the US and No. 15 in the UK, and it was expanded in the 2021 Feel Flows box set.

Surf's Up (film)

Surf's Up (サーフズ・アップ) is a 2007 Sony Pictures Animation computer-animated mockumentary about penguin surfer Cody Maverick entering the Big Z Memorial Surf Off; 78% on Rotten Tomatoes, one Oscar nomination, directed by Ash Brannon and Chris Buck.

Surf's Up 2: WaveMania

Surf's Up 2: WaveMania (2017) is a direct-to-video animated sequel to Surf's Up, produced by Sony Pictures Animation and WWE Studios, directed by Henry Yu, with WWE stars John Cena, Undertaker, Triple H, Paige, and Vince McMahon voicing The Hang 5.

Surface (2022 TV series)

Surface (2022 TV series) is an Apple TV+ psychological thriller created by Veronica West, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as amnesiac Sophie; two seasons, 16 episodes, 2022-2025, Hello Sunshine and Apple Studios.

Surface (topology)

A surface in topology is a two-dimensional manifold, a space that looks locally like a plane, with examples including the sphere, the torus, and the Klein bottle.

Sep 29, 2026

Surface ablation (ophthalmology)

Surface ablation is a flapless refractive surgery technique in which the corneal epithelium is removed and an excimer laser reshapes the cornea, preferred for thin corneas and patients at risk of flap dislocation.

Surface acoustic wave

A surface acoustic wave (SAW) is an elastic wave confined to a solid's surface, generated electrically in piezoelectric materials and widely used in RF filters and sensors.

Surface acoustic wave filter

A surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter is a small, low-cost radio-frequency filter that converts electrical signals into acoustic waves on a piezoelectric substrate, used in mobile phones and radar.

Surface acoustic wave sensor

A surface acoustic wave sensor is a transducer that measures physical, chemical, or biological quantities by detecting changes in an acoustic wave on a piezoelectric material.

Surface antigen domain

Surface antigen domain: conserved protein domains (Pfam Surface_Ag_2, Surface_antigen/SAG, Bac_surface_Ag) found on pathogen surface antigens, plus the immunological concept of cell-surface antigens used in vaccine and antibody discovery.

Surface antigen p22

Surface antigen p22 (P22, SAG2, SAG2A) is a 22-kDa GPI-anchored surface protein of Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites, encoded by the single-copy SAG2 locus used in PCR-RFLP typing, serodiagnosis, and vaccine studies.

Surface area

Surface area is the measure of the total area of the surface of a three-dimensional object, expressed in squared units; a sphere's is 4πr², proved by Archimedes.

Surface Book

Surface Book is Microsoft's line of detachable 2-in-1 laptops, announced in 2015, in which the screen unlatches from a keyboard base that adds a GPU and battery.

Oct 22, 2026

Surface brightness fluctuation distance method

The surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) method, introduced by Tonry and Schneider in 1988, measures galaxy distances from the graininess of unresolved stellar images and helps determine the Hubble constant.

Surface charge

Surface charge is the net electric charge per unit area on a solid or colloidal surface in contact with another phase, balanced by counter charge in solution.