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sailing

18 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. sailing (noun)
  2. sail (verb)
  3. sailing boat (noun)
  4. sailing day (noun)
  5. sailing master (noun)
  6. sailing ship (noun)
  7. composite sailing (noun)
  8. globular sailing (noun)
  9. great-circle sailing (noun)
  10. meridian sailing (noun)
  11. oblique sailing (noun)
  12. parallel sailing (noun)
  13. plain sailing (noun)
  14. plane sailing (noun)
  15. right sailing (noun)
  16. skate sailing (noun)
  17. spherical sailing (noun)
  18. traverse sailing (noun)

sail·ing

noun \ˈsā-liŋ\

Definition of SAILING

1
a : the technical skill of managing a ship : navigation b : the method of determining the course to be followed to reach a given point
2
a : the sport of handling or riding in a sailboat b : a departure from a port
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Examples of SAILING

  1. They're going sailing next week.

First Known Use of SAILING

before 12th century

Rhymes with SAILING

failing, grayling, mailing, paling, railing, tailing, veiling, whaling

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