sailing
playSimple Definition of sailing
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: the sport or activity of traveling on water in a sailboat
Full Definition of sailing
1a : the technical skill of managing a ship : navigationb : the method of determining the course to be followed to reach a given point
2a : the sport of handling or riding in a sailboatb : a departure from a port
Examples of sailing in a sentence
They're going sailing next week.
Before 12th Century
First Known Use of sailing
before 12th century
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