deadline surfing

A deadline is approaching, there is 20 person-days of work to-be-done, and 5 workdays in front of you. While you wade through the doable tasks, more work piles up behind you faster and faster, pushing you towards the deadline. Then, the wave breaks, either you surf straight out of it with confidence and speed (you successfully finish work) or you crash and fall into the whitewater (which experienced deadline surfers call the "stuck inside a washing machine mayhem").

The deadline arrives, washes every crashed surfer on shore, while the experienced riders swim out to catch the next one.

"I love deadlines, I love the sound they make when they swoosh by".
Douglas Adams

"Sorry, can we reschedule to later? I am currently deadline surfing for the deadline tomorrow".

by leobard April 1, 2009

Cloud surfing

(Aviation) The practice of flying a VFR aircraft very close to the tops of the clouds. Generally illegal in US airspace.

Captain Booty went cloud surfing in his Pitts.

by Pseudonum352 October 8, 2014

Metro surfing

Riding on the Washington, D.C. Metro (underground, subway) while not holding onto anything, hence giving the sensation that you are "surfing" in the car on the tracks, trying to stay upright while the car twists and turns.

Source: my friend Tara, who lives in DC, introduced me to this term.

Metro surfing becomes that much funnier to watch when people have been drinking.

by Holly G December 9, 2008

gutter surfing

riding a surfboard or like object down the rushing stream of water of a street curb gutter.

Its raining hard, lets go gutter surfing!

by sk8ingxl3s January 21, 2010

train surfing

An extreme sport popular in Soweto, South Africa.

It includes things like hanging onto a moving train and sliding your feet on the platform, standing on the roof and dodging powerlines, jumping on and off repeatedly, jumping from a bridge onto a moving train and jumping between carriages. The more dangerous the stunt, the better.

It is illegal, and fatalities are common

Sipho and Themba went train surfing from Dobsonville to Orlando.

by George McBob May 5, 2009

cock surfing

When lonely men desperately attempt to attract females by logging on to Chat Roulette and pointing their webcams at their man meat. They are miserably disappointed, however, as the only people they encounter are other lonely desperate men doing the same.

"My sexuality is questionable after spending all last night cock surfing on Chat Roulette"

by Filisofic March 2, 2010

Ego-Surfing

Using a search engine to find references to oneself on the internet

I'm ego-surfing on google

by Egomaniac September 18, 2003