planking

plural plankings

1. countableuncountableA series of planks; a group of planks.

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   In the first place, British men-of-war and merchantmen were at that time built with massive oak frames, knees, and planking, the timber of which had lain at dockyards seasoning in salt water for many years, and was as hard and almost as heavy as iron, while they were fastened with weighty through-and-through copper bolts; so that the ships themselves became rigid, dead structures—sluggish in moderate winds, and in gales and a seaway, wallowing brutes—whereas the American frigates and privateers were built of material barely seasoned in the sun and wind, and were put together as lightly as possible consistent with the strength needed to carry their batteries and to hold on to their canvas in heavy weather.

   1911, Arthur Hamilton Clark, The Clipper Ship Era 1843-1869, Chapter 1

2. countableslanguncountableThe practice of lying face down with arms to the sides, in unusual public spaces, and taking photographs to record the act.

   First, there was planking. People taking pictures of themselves in a planked position and putting the photos on the Internet.

   2012 March 28, Trey Parker, “Faith Hilling”, in South Park, season 16, episode 3, spoken by Reporter

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   […] but, like planking, horsemanning, Tebowing, Hadoukening, and other viral photography memes, as a genre of public performance, dance in public is greatly facilitated by the channels of distribution that social media offer, […]

   2020, Harmony Bench, Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of plank