Culture trivia
Name a surfing move or term
“Name a surfing move or term” is one of 188 culture prompts in Icillion. Of its 84 accepted answers, 7 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Wave
- Paddle
- Pop up
- Barrel
- Wipeout
- Hang ten
- Cutback
One step down
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Tube
- Green room
- Floater
- Snap
- Re-entry
- Roundhouse cutback
- Carve
- Bottom turn
- Top turn
- Off the lip
- Lip
- Air
- Aerial
- Alley-oop
- Superman
- Tail slide
- Backside
- Frontside
- Goofy
- Regular
- Goofy footer
- Switch footer
- Duck dive
- Turtle roll
- Eskimo roll
- Paddle out
- Take-off
- Drop in
- Snaking
- Kook
- Grom
- Shaka
- Stoked
- Gnarly
- Rad
- Tubular
- Cowabunga
- Hang five
- Nose ride
- Cross-step
- Cheater five
- Drop knee
- Hang heels
- Walk the board
Answers by level
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsWave · Paddle · Pop up
- Below the Surface44 answers · 25 ptsTube · Green room · Floater …
- The Deep22 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss10 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 22 answers starting with B, D, G, H, J, L, P, R, S and T. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 84 answers in total, 36 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Air”. Longest: “Roundhouse cutback”.
- S, T and P are the most common first letters; together they start 37% of the answers.
How to go deeper
- Start with S: 14 of the answers begin with it.
- Wave, Paddle and Pop up are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Art movements and architectural styles have many lesser-known names.
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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name a surfing move or term”?
- The usual first answers are Wave, Paddle, Pop up, Barrel and Wipeout. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a surfing move or term”?
- 84 in all: 7 on The Tip, 44 Below the Surface, 22 in The Deep, 10 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a surfing move or term” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Air” and the longest is “Roundhouse cutback”.
- How hard is “Name a surfing move or term”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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