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
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Examples of sailing in a Sentence
They're going sailing next week.
Recent Examples of sailing from the Web
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Gilbert is a boating and sailing journalist, who also writes cookbooks, and has cooked for hungry crews on long-distance and racing trips.
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The month before, White House officials trumpeted news of an aircraft carrier heading toward North Korea — at a time when the ship was in fact sailing in the opposite direction.
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Happily Ever After will be pure smooth sailing from there.
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Bermuda Emirates Team New Zealand won the America’s Cup on Monday, wresting control of the nearly 166-year-old sailing trophy from Larry Ellison’s Oracle Team USA and dealing a blow to the Silicon Valley tycoon’s revamp of the competition.
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At 26, Burling becomes the youngest helmsman to win sailing’s greatest prize in a competition that dates to 1851.
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Even then, the rope system was antiquated, supposedly a holdover from the days of sailing ships, when seamen adept at scrambling through the rigging of a man-of-war were employed to work backstage in theaters.
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The Martha Lewis was launched in 1955, part of a fleet of similar wooden sailing vessels designed to dredge the Chesapeake Bay for oysters.
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But Veronica and Betty's friendship is smooth sailing.
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First Known Use of sailing
before 12th century
SAILING Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of sailing for English Language Learners
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: the sport or activity of traveling on water in a sailboat
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