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Challenging the rapids, maybe
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canoeing
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Word definitions for canoeing in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Canoeing is a sport or recreational activity which involves paddling a canoe with a single-bladed paddle . In some parts of Europe canoeing refers to both canoeing and kayaking , with a canoe being called a Canadian canoe . An ancient mode of transportation, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
canoeing \ca*noe"ing\ n. The act or art of using a canoe.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A water sport involving racing in canoes or kayaks. vb. (present participle of canoe English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1870, verbal noun from canoe (v.). Related: Canoeist .
Usage examples of canoeing.
In the late summer of 1982, four youths and two men were on a canoeing holiday in Banff National Park when they failed to return to their base camp at the end of the day.
Matthew and Mark and I have taken two blessed months canoeing and portaging from railhead, and it will take us about the same time to get back.
I do not look on this affair as anything more than canoeing in the woods.
It might be wolves, although they had not seen any signs of them while they were canoeing down the lakeshore.
This canoeing touches your gifts rather than mine, boy, though I will handle a paddle with the best Mingo that ever struck a salmon.
And isn't there water -- water -- water -- nothing but water for miles on miles in your rivers, that you have been canoeing through, too?
Jim in particular for invaluable technical and historical detail on hunting and trapping and canoeing in the bush.
Brendan said, raising his voice to quash their argumentativeness, "downhill and cross-country skiing, skidoo and other snow-based sports, canoeing and kayaking on designated rivers, trekking on foot or mounted, hunting and fishing.
He worked among Trekkies and canoeing fanatics, an ex-CIA agent and a world-class glazer of chocolate truffles.
If that meant he had to crouch here next to a crummy little warehouse of rusting sheet metal in South Central LA, hoping he wouldn't get shot and frying his sinuses when he could be hiking in the Sierras breathing air colder and cleaner than crystal, or canoeing in Glacier National Park,, or even just taking a break to help out on his brother's farm back in North Dakota, then so be it.
About the only thing I had learned about canoeing was to head into the part of the rapids that seemed to be moving the fastest, where the most white water was.