Meaning of river runner | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A raft, kayak, or similar watercraft used especially for traveling with the current of a river in a swift manner.
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2. A person who uses such a watercraft.
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3. A recreational or commercial boat used for regular operation on a riverway.
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4. A person who is an experienced worker or traveler on a riverway.
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Examples

“There are many ways to go down a whitewater river. . . . If you paddle a play boat, you will play. If you paddle a more stable river runner, you may play a little less or a little differently.”

“[C]heck out the Jackson Kayak Zen—it’s a full-on river runner but will still surf and flat spin nicely.”

“Books like WHITEWATER RAFTING by William McGinnis, go into great, and very necessary, detail to explain all of the hazards which the river runner may have to face and the proper procedures which should be followed to negotiate each of these.”

“"It's fabulous, spectacular, a little scary and sometimes a lot scary," John Williams, a Moab river runner for 30 years, said of the Cataract spring flood.”

“A Missouri man is being charged with second-degree murder after shooting a man from a float group that he claims to have found on his property. . . . Loretta Dart, the victim's wife, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that her husband was trying to prevent an altercation between Crocker and one of the river-runners.”

“In 1919, C.P. built a true work of art, a 26-foot mahogany river runner, with a stepped hull and an aft cockpit”

“The boat, a flat-bottomed river-runner with a forty-horse jet, slides off Mac's trailer, onto crumbling shelf ice and into the river, green, translucent.”

“The river runner was a broad flat boat, capable of holding a lot of cargo.”

“[I]t was Captain Tod Halsey who had the responsibility of the whole thing. If the great marble shaft couldn't be dragged up the face of the bluff, the squint-eyed old river runner would be the loser.”

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