sailing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈseɪlɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ

Wikipedia

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: إبحار (ar) (ʾibḥār) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 航行 (cmn) (hángxíng)

• Czech: plachtění (cs) n
• Dutch: zeilen (nl) n
• Finnish: purjehtiminen (fi)
• French: navigation la voile (fr) f
• Galician: vela (gl) f
• German: Segeln (de) n
• Greek: ιστιοπλοΐα (el) (istioplo'ía) f
• Hungarian: vitorlázás (hu)
• Italian: navigazione (it) f

• Japanese: 帆走 (ja) (はんそう, hansō)
• Korean: 항해 (ko) (hanghae)
• Norwegian: seilas (no) n, seiltur (no) m
• Polish: (act) żeglowanie (pl) n, (sport) żeglarstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: navegação (pt) f
• Russian: парусный спорт (ru) (párusnyj sport) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: једрење (sh) n

  Roman: jedrenje (sh) n

• Spanish: navegación (es) f
• Swedish: segling (sv) 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