golfing

Pluralgolfings

1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A session or stretch of time spent playing golf.

   An afternoon of golfing left them sunburned but happy.

   Nothing clears his mind quite like a long day of golfing.

   Note

   Mostly a mass noun, used without an article: an afternoon of golfing, a long day of golfing. It can also be counted, treating each outing as a separate event, and that is where the plural golfings comes in. The plural is rarer than the uncountable use, so reach for it only when you mean distinct sessions.

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of golf.

   They spent the day golfing under a clear blue sky.

   He kept golfing despite the steady drizzle.

   Note

   This form carries both lives of the verb golf. On the course it is intransitive: people are simply golfing, with no object after it, as in they spent the day golfing. Among programmers the same form names the craft of writing something in as few characters as possible, the game behind code golf and regex golf. As a gerund it shades into the noun for a session of play.

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