boating
noun
- leisure activity involving boats
- to ride in a boat
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊtɪŋ/ / /ˈboʊtɪŋ/ / [ˈboʊ̯ɾɪŋ]
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English boat English -ing English boating From boat + -ing.
- 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.”
- In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree English boat English -ing English boating From boat + -ing.
- present participle and gerund of boat