as in yacht
a boat equipped with one or more sails
we went sailing on the secluded lake in a little two-person dinghy
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Recent Examples of dinghy
An additional autonomous dinghy could serve as the above water collection point.
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New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2025
That’s why the entire system consists of an unmanned service boat with a dinghy, a drone, a small underwater search robot and the TUM diving robot.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
In the video, Heslop and Bane were captured on camera walking together before getting on board a dinghy and sailing away.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
The outlet reported a rescue boat was deployed to help the man, who was pulled from the sea onto a dinghy, but did not survive.
—Colson Thayer, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2025
That’s why the entire system consists of an unmanned service boat with a dinghy, a drone, a small underwater search robot and the TUM diving robot.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
In the video, Heslop and Bane were captured on camera walking together before getting on board a dinghy and sailing away.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
The outlet reported a rescue boat was deployed to help the man, who was pulled from the sea onto a dinghy, but did not survive.
—Colson Thayer, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dinghy
Noun
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Their $500 million mega yacht, Koru, was anchored nearby, but the couple reportedly spent most of their time on land.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
6 Jan. 2026
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The Coral Gables man operating the boat that ran over and killed a 15-year-old girl wakeboarding behind a yacht in Biscayne Bay pleaded guilty to misdemeanor careless-boating charges Monday in a Miami-Dade County court.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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One of the advantages, according to Guzy, is access to smaller ports that larger ships can’t reach, like Lipari, one of the Aeolian Islands off Sicily.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The scary one involved reaching the moon and using Apollo 8’s howitzer of a main engine to slow the ship down and settle into lunar orbit, circling the moon 10 times before coming home.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
29 Jan. 2026
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When the schooner was just off the coast of El Salvador, a tramp steamer spotted them and finally supplied fresh water.—
Michael Waters,
New Yorker,
3 Jan. 2026
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Ella is shocked to suddenly find Nick (Brown), a sailor and local Newport historian, aboard her schooner and accuses him of being a stowaway.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Jet Ski, stand-up paddleboard, kayak, and sailboat rentals are also available nearby.—
Carrie Honaker,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Jan. 2026
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Along the western edge of the Netherlands, where long stretches of blue sea meet shores painted with pine trees, windmills, and sailboats, lies Domburg—a 16th-century village in the maritime province of Zeeland.—
Katherine McGrath,
Architectural Digest,
22 Jan. 2026
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Now as sailors stepped out into the surf, a great crowd tried to take oars off the first sloop.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Anguilla's rich sailing history comes alive while exploring the island's coastline on a classic Caribbean sloop.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Dec. 2025
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The court, Mediazona said, issued a statement about the sentencing of a Ukrainian navy commander who ordered strikes against the Moskva and another ship, the Admiral Essen frigate.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
26 Jan. 2026
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Japan has long banned arms exports but has significantly eased restrictions in recent years and is now developing next-generation fighter jets with the UK and Italy while finalizing a deal to sell frigates to Australia.—
Mari Yamaguchi,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Dec. 2025
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“Dinghy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dinghy. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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