boating

plural boatings

1. countableuncountableThe activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat.

   I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings.

   1853, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe, volume 1, page 95

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   With the old boatmen holding annual re-unions at Rolling Green Park, tales and exciting moments of boatings and fishing in the old canal are told and re-told among veteran boatmen.

   1953, Pennsylvania Angler, volumes 22-23, page 61

2. countablehistoricaluncountableIn Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of boat