Crossword clues for rapids
rapids
- Rafters shoot them
- Rafter's thrill
- Fast-moving water
- Fast part of a river ride
- Whitewaters T. Rex rafted on?
- Whitewater rafting challenge
- They're shot in rafts
- They're classified I-VI for rafters
- They may be shot in rafts
- Stony ______, Saskatchewan
- Shot water?
- Shooting locale?
- Roanoke __, NC
- Rafting thrill
- Place for current events
- Niagara feature
- New Brunswick's Red _____
- Kayaker's challenge
- Iowa's Cedar __
- Hazard for river boats
- Frothy water area
- Frothy flow
- Froth-topped flow
- Fast-moving river parts
- Fast waters
- Canoeists shoot them
- Canoe tipper-overs
- Amazon features
- Tippy canoe area
- Canoeist's danger
- White water feature
- Canoeing challenge
- Rafting area
- Area of danger
- Whitewater part of a stream
- White water
- Canoeist's challenge
- Rafter's challenge
- Cedar ___, Iowa
- White-water producers
- What some adventurers shoot
- Grand or Cedar
- Fast-flowing part of a river
- Fast-flowing section of river
- River apparently is filled with dead stretches of water
- Pirate's leader involved in surprise attacks in fast-flowing water
- Attacks engulfing quiet area of running water
- Breaks into houses quietly in rough area
- Turbulent part of a river
- Niagara Falls feature
- Rafting challenge
- Water hazards
- Swift-moving part of a river
- Rafting hazard
- Kayaking challenge
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1765, from French rapides (see rapid); applied by French voyagers to rough, swift-flowing reaches in North American rivers.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of rapid English)
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 582
Land area (2000): 3.666546 sq. miles (9.496311 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.666546 sq. miles (9.496311 sq. km)
FIPS code: 60609
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 43.101324 N, 78.641134 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Rapids
Wikipedia
Rapids are sections of a river where the river bed has a relatively steep gradient, causing an increase in water velocity and turbulence.
Rapids are hydrological features between a run (a smoothly flowing part of a stream) and a cascade. Rapids are characterised by the river becoming shallower with some rocks exposed above the flow surface. As flowing water splashes over and around the rocks, air bubbles become mixed in with it and portions of the surface acquire a white colour, forming what is called " whitewater". Rapids occur where the bed material is highly resistant to the erosive power of the stream in comparison with the bed downstream of the rapids. Very young streams flowing across solid rock may be rapids for much of their length.
Rapids are categorized in classes, generally running from I to VI. A Class 5 rapid may be categorized as Class 5.1-5.9. While class I rapids are easy to negotiate and require no maneuvering, class VI rapids pose threat to life with little or no chance for rescue.
Usage examples of "rapids".
If he does shoot at you, try your goddamndest to get to the next set of rapids, or around the next turn.
I don't mind going down a few rapids with you, and drinking a little whiskey by a campfire.
We rode into the funnel-neck and were sucked into the main rapids so suddenly that it felt as though the ordinary river had been snatched from under us like a rug, and we were tossing and bucking and banging on stones, trying to hold the head of the canoe downriver any way we could.
Far off ahead was the pouring of another set of rapids or falls with -- I was already ready to bet -- a curve in it.
There were no rapids -- though we kept hearing them -- and we were riding through rocky banks and tall mournful long-leaf pines.
I prayed that there would be no rapids while we were in the gorge, or that they would be easy ones.
They were too close to us for running rapids, but there was nothing I could do about 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.
We came out in a short stretch between rapids, but we were going too fast to get out of the middle of the river before the next rocks.
As I slid down I saw calm water below, through another stretch of rapids: broad calm, then more white water farther down, far off into evening.
My body was heavy and hard to move without the tremendous authority of the rapids to help it and tell it what to do.
The aluminum canoe floated palely, bulging half out of the total dark, making slowly for the next rapids, but idly, and unnaturally slowed and stogged with calm water.
You should be safe as long as you're running these little rapids along here.
If that were the case he would kill them both, though if Bobby gauged the change in the light well enough and set out when there was enough visibility to use the canoe but not enough to shoot by, they might have a chance to get past him, through the next stretch of rapids -- the ones now a little downstream from me -- and on down.
Below me, except for one rush of whiteness cramped between two big hedges of stone, the rapids seemed comparatively gentle, in places -- so far as I could tell -- scarcely more than a heavy-twilled rippling.