boating

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *bʰóydos

Proto-Germanic *baitaz

Proto-West Germanic *bait

Old English bāt

Middle English bot

English boat

English -ing

English boating

From boat + -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊtɪŋ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊtɪŋ/, [ˈboʊ̯ɾɪŋ]
  • Homophone: boding
• Rhymes: -əʊtɪŋ

Noun

boating (countable and uncountable, plural boatings)

1. The activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat.
   • 1853, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe, volume 1, page 95:

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

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

     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.

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

Derived terms

• dragon boating
• nonboating
• playboating
• swifboating

Translations

The activity of going out in a boat

• Bulgarian: гребане (grebane)
• Finnish: veneily (fi)
• Irish: bádóireacht f

Verb

boating

1. present participle and gerund of boat

Anagrams

• Baoting, Tongbai