Crossword clues for rafting
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Raft \Raft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rafted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rafting.] To transport on a raft, or in the form of a raft; to make into a raft; as, to raft timber.
Rafting \Raft"ing\, n. The business of making or managing rafts.
Wiktionary
n. The sport of guiding a raft while descending a river, especially through rapids known as white water rafting. vb. (present participle of raft English)
Wikipedia
Rafting and white water rafting are recreational outdoor activities which use an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other body of water. This is often done on whitewater or different degrees of rough water, and generally represents a new and challenging environment for participants. Dealing with risk and the need for teamwork is often a part of the experience. The development of this activity as a leisure sport has become popular since the mid-1970s, evolving from individuals paddling rafts with double-bladed paddles to multi-person rafts propelled by single-bladed paddles and steered by a tour guide at the stern. It is considered an extreme sport, and can be fatal. The International Rafting Federation, often referred to as the IRF, is the worldwide body which oversees all aspects of the sport.
Rafting is traveling by raft.
Rafting may also refer to:
- Rafting event - in the context of biological migrations
- Timber rafting - log transportation method
- Ice rafting - transport of various material by ice
- Finger rafting - overlapping of two ice sheets
- Rafting up - putting boats alonside each other in harbour or at anchor
Usage examples of "rafting".
You know a heap more about getting out bridge timber than I do, while I expect I know more about river rafting than you do.
Although the Professor pointed out the broad patch almost at once as the Milky Way, Jonathan was already aware of the name and was wondering what it might be like to be rafting away down a river of stars.
Ahab Adrift THE company spent most of the next two days rafting downriver to Hightower Village.
Antarctica had spun away from the other pieces of southern Pangaea, soon traveling so far that no land bridge, no rafting was possible.
In the years that followed he played the part of a hard-working, thrifty raftsman with a slight stutter, rafting whole forests down the Niemen, the Bobr, the Bug, and the Vistula.
Benteen, who had been chauffering logs and natives for much of the day, learned about the rafting scarn later, as they were laboriously refueling her Letoumeau.
It would follow and, where possible, preserve the original trail made through the swamps and forest by Kentucks, entrepreneurs out of what would become Kentucky, walking back home after rafting goods down the Mississippi to be sold at the port in Natchez, and by the outlaws who preyed upon them, by Indians trading and warring and finally by soldiers of the Union Army bent on bringing the South to heel.
Eighty of his brigade were detached under Col. Irvine to Rafting Creek, in order to cut off supplies from Camden.
Some represented real sacrifices on her own part, as when she persuaded Blundy to a weekend's rafting on Sometimes River, slowly dwindling down from its coldspring flooded size.
A land line call to his buddy Roy, W6AMD, brought the disturbing news that last Thursday night, at a time when K6ATX was rafting down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, the Condor had responded to net control's check-in roll call with his same sweet-toned signal--but with a faultiness of keymanship that bore scant resemblance to his skilled brasspounding of former years.
It was the sight of a jet liner moving in slow motion seven miles overhead that reminded Tommy that Grand Canyon rafting parties were required to maintain radio facilities capable of working a passing aircraft.
Mike is an active outdoorsman who likes to swim, bike, hike, rock climb, fish, hunt, paint, build boats and gliders, go whitewater rafting, bungee jumping, mountain cycling, scuba diving, and skydiving, and he’s a three-time champion of the Mesick Triathlon and the Burton Toughman Contest.
She loved roller coasters and white-water rafting and had even toyed with the idea, during high school, of working on a bomb squad.
He can go surfboarding, rollerblading, waterskiing, rally-driving, scuba-diving, ten-pin bowling, white-water rafting and rowing.
Since she was the owner of White Water Rafting, she must have been responsible for the contest—.