sailing

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Noun

sailing (plural sailings)

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

Derived terms

• clear sailing
• plain sailing
• sailing ship
• sailing dinghy
• sailing vessel

Translations

motion across water

Arabic: ابحار (ibħār) m. Chinese: 航行 (hángxíng) Croatian: jèdrēnje (hr) n. Dutch: zeilen (nl) n. Finnish: purjehtiminen (fi) French: navigation (fr) f. la voile Galician: vela (gl) f. German: Segeln (de) n. Greek: ιστιοπλοΐα (el) (istioplo'ía) f.

Hungarian: vitorlázás (hu) Italian: navigazione (it) f. Japanese: 帆走 (はんそう, hansō) Korean: 항해 (hanghae) Norwegian: seilas n., seiltur m. Portuguese: navegação (pt) f. Russian: парусный спорт (ru) (párusnyj sport) m. Spanish: navegación (es) f. Swedish: segling c.

skill to operate a vessel

Finnish: navigointi (fi) Greek: ιστιοπλοΐα (el) (istioplo'ía) f.

Spanish: náutica (es) f.

time of departure

Finnish: lähtöaika (fi)

Adjective

sailing (not comparable)

1. Travelling by ship

Translations

travelling by ship

Finnish: purjehtiva (fi), purjehdus- (fi) German: segeln (de)

Norwegian: seilende Swedish: seglande

Verb

sailing

1. Present participle of sail.

Anagrams

• ailings, nilgais