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Meaning of Boating | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈbəʊtɪŋ

Definitions

  1. The activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat.
  2. In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

Equivalents

العربية ركوب الزّوارق
Български гребане
Suomi veneily
Gaeilge bádóireacht
한국어 뱃놀이

Examples

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

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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