fishing

noun

fish·​ing ˈfi-shiŋ 

1

: the sport or business of catching fish

2

: a place for catching fish

Examples of fishing in a Sentence

The fishing was pretty good today.

I'm going fishing this weekend.

Recent Examples on the Web

Its relatively tiny and poor population depends on tourism (cruise ships dock daily), fishing, small family farms or work on sporadic developments, many financed by Chinese and Russian investors. —Nina Burleigh, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 May 2024

In the summer of 2015, a charter fishing boat in the Florida Keys was out with a group of clients and came across hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cocaine floating in the Atlantic Ocean. —David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024

Word History

First Known Use

13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing fishing

• bottom-fishing
• fishing expedition
• fishing line
• fly fishing
• ice fishing
• magnet fishing
• spin fishing