Crossword clues for sailing
sailing
- Shoving off
- Part four of our Christmas quote
- Henry Hudson's skill
- 1980 Christopher Cross hit
- Traveling in a ship
- On the move on the briny
- No. 1 hit for Christopher Cross
- In a race, perhaps
- Cruising, in a way
- Christopher Cross song for the water?
- Christopher Cross #1 hit
- Staightforward procedures involving one in poor health
- Not too good east of prairies for a picnic
- The departure of a vessel from a port
- The activity of flying a glider
- Traverse or travel by ship on (a body of water)
- Move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- Travel in a boat propelled by wind
- Travel by boat on a boat propelled by wind or by other means
- Aegean activity
- Sons in poor health — would this bring on nausea?
- Saint sick in a boat?
- Water sport
- Regatta activity
- On a clipper
- Using a clipper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sailing \Sail"ing\, n.
The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage.
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(Naut.) The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation; as, globular sailing; oblique sailing.
Note: For the several methods of sailing, see under Circular, Globular, Oblique, Parallel, etc.
Sailing master (U. S. Navy), formerly, a warrant officer, ranking next below a lieutenant, whose duties were to navigate the vessel; and under the direction of the executive officer, to attend to the stowage of the hold, to the cables, rigging, etc. The grade was merged in that of master in 1862.
Sail \Sail\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Sailing.] [AS. segelian, seglian. See Sail, n.]
To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by the action of steam or other power.
To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a water fowl.
To be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water; as, they sailed from London to Canton.
To set sail; to begin a voyage.
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To move smoothly through the air; to glide through the air without apparent exertion, as a bird.
As is a winged messenger of heaven, . . . When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, And sails upon the bosom of the air.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English seglinge, verbal noun from the source of sail (v.).
Wiktionary
travelling by ship n. 1 motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise 2 navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel 3 The time of departure from a port v
(present participle of sail English)
WordNet
adj. traveling by boat or ship [syn: at sea(p)]
n. the work of a sailor [syn: seafaring, navigation]
riding in a sailboat
the departure of a vessel from a port
the activity of flying a glider [syn: glide, gliding, sailplaning, soaring]
Wikipedia
"Sailing" (stylized as "SAILING") is a song by Japanese pop group AAA. It is their 31st single and is included in the group's seventh studio album 777: Triple Seven. The song was written by Mitsuhiro Hidaka and Tetsuya Komuro. The single was released in Japan on February 22, 2012, under Avex Trax in four editions: a CD-only edition, a CD and DVD A edition, a CD and DVD B edition, and a Mu-Mo edition. "Sailing" debuted at number four on the weekly Oricon singles chart. The single charted for six weeks and went on to sell over 45,600 copies in Japan.
Sailing comprises wind propulsion of a craft by means of sails or other airfoils and steering it over water, ice or land, depending on the type of craft. A sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails by adjusting their angle with respect to the moving sailing craft and sometimes by adjusting the sail area. The force transmitted from the sails is resisted by forces from the hull, keel, and rudder of a sailing craft, by forces from skate runners for an iceboat, and by forces from wheels for a land sailing craft to allow steering a course on a point of sail with respect to the true wind.
While there are still some places in the world where sail-powered passenger, fishing and trading vessels are used, these craft have become rarer as internal combustion engines have become economically viable in even the poorest and most remote areas. In most countries sailing is enjoyed as a recreational activity or as a sport. Recreational sailing or yachting can be divided into racing and cruising. Cruising can include extended offshore and ocean-crossing trips, coastal sailing within sight of land, and daysailing.
"Sailing" is a song written and recorded by The Sutherland Bros. Band (featuring the Sutherland Brothers Gavin and Iain). Released in June 1972, it can be found on their album Lifeboat released in the same year.
Rod Stewart recorded the song at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama, for his 1975 album Atlantic Crossing, and it was subsequently a number 1 hit in the UK in September 1975 for four weeks. The single returned to the UK top 10 a year later when used as the theme music for the BBC documentary series Sailor, about HMS Ark Royal. Having been a hit twice, it remains Stewart's biggest-selling single in the UK, with sales of over a million copies.
The music video was shot in New York Harbor in 1975 and credited with a 1978 completion date. It also was one of the first to be aired on MTV when it launched on 1 August 1981. Despite Stewart's great popularity in the United States, the song never climbed higher than number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The song was re-released by Stewart as a charity single after the Zeebrugge ferry disaster in 1987, and was reworked by a group of musicians led by Steve Hackett as a protest song against the repatriation of Vietnamese boat people by Hong Kong in 1990. Stewart performed the song at the Concert for Diana (a concert in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, who had died 10 years earlier) at Wembley stadium on 1 July 2007.
The London Symphony Orchestra released an orchestral cover of the song on its 1977 LP Classic Rock. Robin Trower covered the song for his Long Misty Days album, with his longtime bassist James Dewar on vocals. The melody is used for the football chant " No one likes us, we don't care", sung by Millwall supporters. The melody is also used by German football club Hertha BSC Berlin for their chant 'The Hertha Hymn' titled 'Nur Nach Hause' which is sung at matches as the team enters the field.
Sailing is the art of controlling a boat with sails.
Sailing or Sailin' may also refer to:
- Sailing (sport), an organized sport
- "Sailing" (AAA song), 2012
- "Sailing" (Christopher Cross song), 1980
- "Sailing" (Sutherland Brothers song), 1972, made popular by Rod Stewart
- "Sailing", a song written by Christopher Cross on George Benson's 2009 album Songs and Stories
- Sailin', an album by Kim Carnes, or the title song
- "Sailing" (Birds of a Feather), an episode of Birds of a Feather
Sailing refers to using sailboats for sporting purposes. It can be recreational or competitive.
Sailing is the main variety of yachting, and competitive sailing the main variety of yacht racing. A sailing competition is known as a regatta, usually consists of multiple individual races, where the boat that performs best in each race is the overall winner. There is a broad variety of kinds of races and sailboats used for racing from large yacht to dinghy racing. Much racing is done around buoys or similar marks in protected waters, while some longer offshore races cross open water. All kinds of boats are used for racing, including small dinghies, catamarans, boats designed primarily for cruising, and purpose-built raceboats. The Racing Rules of Sailing govern the conduct of yacht racing, windsurfing, kitesurfing, model boat racing, dinghy racing and virtually any other form of racing around a course with more than one vessel while powered by the wind.
Usage examples of "sailing".
It had not been possible to provide the aerological outfit at the time of sailing, and the meteorologist of the expedition was therefore left behind in Norway.
Mayor Aiken thought his post-lunch meeting with Philip Mohandas would be smooth sailing, a photo op.
In 1614, Captain Sir Samuel Argal, sailing under a commission from Dale, governor of Virginia, visited the Dutch settlements on Hudson River, and demanded their submission to the English crown and Virginian dominion.
They slid along the structure like droplets of water along the wires of a wet birdcage, and passed over and through each other like waves, whether they met moving about the armature or sailing through the space inside.
The stench of tar, the creak of timbers, the splash of the swell of an ice-cold sea, the incessant rocking all told him he was still a prisoner on the Azhkendi vessel, sailing ever farther away from Astasia by the hour.
From the first I sensed that we were not sailing new water, and indeed it caused me a moment or two of bafflement until I noticed the sorry state of the worms, and all became clear.
I was vexed to see how these gentlemen were admitted while I danced attendance, and the project of sailing with Orloff began to displease me.
A couple of seamen at the wheel were keeping the ship sailing fast, with Swan occasionally peering down at one or the other of the dimly lit compasses in the binnacle, his confidence restored.
But Biter was not fully canvased, sailing staid and easy under topsails only, so there were no alarms.
He looked over his shoulder and Neil was flying in his wake, the Bludger sailing harmlessly over his head.
Register as her guide book, and work the boaty people, the ocean sailing types, with appropriate cover story, and see what she could get in the way of gossip.
A soggy football went sailing past the window and a clatter of bogmen chasing after it.
We were five hours sailing before we reached the line of battleships bombarding at about fifteen thousand yards.
Admiral Antonio sailing in the Bucentaur, with the nobles of the land!
In sailing to Virginia, navigators steer through a strait formed by two points, called the Capes, into the bay of Chesapeak, a large inlet that runs three hundred miles into the country from south to north, covered from the Atlantic Ocean by the eastern side of Maryland, and a small portion of Virginia on the same peninsula.