boating

noun
/ˈbəʊtɪŋ/UK/ˈboʊtɪŋ/US

Etymology

boat + -ing

  1. derived from *bʰeyd- — “to break, split
  2. inherited from *baitaz
  3. inherited from *bait
  4. inherited from bāt — “boat
  5. inherited from bot
  6. suffixed as boating — “boat + ing

Definitions

  1. The activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat.

    • I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings.
    • With the old boatmen holding annual re-unions at Rolling Green Park, tales and exciting moments of boatings and fishing in the old canal are told and re-told among veteran boatmen.
  2. In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered…

    In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

  3. present participle and gerund of boat

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for boating. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA