boating

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊtɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊtɪŋ/, [ˈboʊ̯ɾɪŋ]
  • Homophone: boding

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.

boating

1. present participle of boat