Rowing is the sport of pulling long oars to move a narrow boat fast. Go rowing, rowing club, a rowing machine.
In sweep rowing each person has one oar and in sculling each has two, which is the basic division of the sport. Crews sit facing backwards, so the cox steers and calls the rhythm. It is among the most demanding endurance sports there is. Note the rowing machine, which is standard gym equipment; and that in British English rowing also means a noisy quarrel, pronounced differently.
1nounrowingThe sport of pulling oars to move a boat.
“The rowing course is about two thousand metres.”
rowing is a sport.
Middle English
rewe
English
row
English, today
rowing
Built from
by surface analysis, row + -ing. row comes from Middle English rewe. From Middle English rewe, rowe, rawe, from Old English rǣw, rāw, probably from Proto-Germanic raiwō, raigwō, rīgǭ (“row, streak, line”), from Proto-Indo-European Hreyk- (“to carve, scratch, etch”). Cognate with Scots raw (“row”), dialectal Norwegian rå (“boundary line”), stq Riege (“row”), West Frisian rige (“row”), Dutch rij (“row, line”), German Low German Reeg, Riege, Rieg (“row”), German Reihe (“row”), German Riege (“sports team”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA