canoeing

UK/kəˈnuɪŋ/US/kəˈnuɪŋ/

nounB1+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,004 of 15,258leans written

Canoeing is paddling a light narrow boat. Go canoeing, a canoeing trip, canoeing on the river.

Strictly a canoe is paddled kneeling with a single blade and a kayak sitting with a double, though in Britain canoeing covers both loosely. The sport splits into sprint on flat water and slalom through gates in rapids.

Definitions of canoeing

1nouncanoeingPaddling a light narrow boat.B1+
“We went canoeing down the river and camped on a sandbank for the night.”

canoeing is a paddling.

Where it comes from

awd-pro
*kanawa
tnq
*kanowa — dugout canoe
Spanish
canoa
English
canoe
English, today
canoeing

Built from

anua · guc — boat, canoe

From canoe + -ing. canoe Adopted in 16th century from Spanish canoa, from tnq kanowa (“dugout canoe”) (compare arw kanoa (“canoe”), guc anuwa, anua (“boat, canoe”)), from awd-pro kanawa.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Sports & Games Played

Practise this word

canoeing in the wild

Other forms include a wide range of canoeing on lakes, rivers, oceans, ponds and streams.
Canoeing
Wildwater canoeing is a competitive discipline of canoeing in which kayaks or canoes are used to negotiate a stretch of river speedily.
Wildwater canoeing
The other Olympic canoeing discipline is canoe sprint.
Canoe slalom
Male canoeists have competed at the Summer Olympic Games since 1936, and women's canoeing was added to the Olympic programme in 1948.
Canoe sprint
For the first time, women competed in two individual events in sprint canoeing.
Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the anua family

canoe

canoeing — used about once every 18,318 pages · #13,004 · point at the bar for the others

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