whitewater rafting

alternative white-water rafting · alternative white water rafting

1. uncountableTraveling by raft through a section of a river which is churning with rapids, as for sport or adventurism.

   Apart from ice hockey and football, Lavrov is said to be happiest going white water rafting and fishing with friends in Siberia.

   2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian

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   Scheduled, too, during the tour . . . is a visit to Big Bend Country, where jagged canyons cutting among towering limestone cliffs offer whitewater rafting on the Rio Grande.

   1987 February 1, Lawrence Van Gelder, “Travel Advisory”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 May 2011

   Karleigh had been on a six-week African adventure holiday when she went whitewater rafting on the treacherous Zambesi River rapids.

   2007, Sam Riches, "Family, friends mourn woman killed in rafting accident," adelaidenow.com (Australia), 15 Oct. (retrieved 9 May 2011)