Definitions for boating

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boating boat·ing

Spelling: [boh-ting]

IPA: /ˈboʊ tɪŋ/

Boating is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 207 anagrams from letters in boating (abginot).

Definitions for boating

noun

1. the use of boats, especially for pleasure:
2. a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
3. a small ship, generally for specialized use:
4. a small vessel carried for use by a large one, as a lifeboat:
5. a ship.
6. a vessel of any size built for navigation on a river or other inland body of water.
7. a serving dish resembling a boat:
8. Ecclesiastical. a container for holding incense before it is placed in the censer.

Idioms

1. in the same boat, in the same circumstances; faced with the same problems:
2. miss the boat, Informal. to fail to take advantage of an opportunity: to miss the point of; fail to understand:
3. rock the boat. rock2 (def 17).

adjective

1. of or relating to boats:

verb (used with object)

1. to transport in a boat:
2. to remove (an oar) from the water and place athwartships. Compare ship1 (def 10).

verb (used without object)

1. to go in a boat:

Origin of boating

First recorded in 1600-10; boat + -ing¹, -ing²

Examples for boating

All the happiness of my life, at this period, was derived from boating.

Back in New York City, boating the border had seemed like a fine journalistic experiment.

But to call End of Watch a “buddy cop” movie is like referring to Titanic as a film about a boating accident.

He believes in the healthy exercise of swimming and boating and cricket.

His wife is in a coma from a boating accident, and he wants to bring his family together before she dies.

Well, I have gone on boating, etc., just the same ever since.

On the first day of the vacation, she is killed in a boating accident as her children watch on in horror.

There was the loch, too, and its pleasures of boating and bathing.

It was a boating accident, and they brought him home quite dead.

It was the boating men who sat down to the dinner prepared for Camille.