Thesaurus results for OUTRIGGER

outrigger

noun

Definition of outrigger

as in catamaran

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Recent Examples of outrigger Four mechanical floors with outriggers allow for airflow to minimize the effect of wind on the building, enabling its supertall height. — Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 11 May 2026 Tribal elders are invited to open the annual event, and several Tribal members join teams during outrigger sprints and the voyage. — Brianna Randall, Forbes.com, 6 May 2026 After cutting a circle in the ice with a wheel to sink the bad guys, Bond deployed his outriggers for balance and his on-demand studs for an impressive getaway. — Kristin Shaw, ArsTechnica, 10 Mar. 2026 The resort also has a gorgeous, airy gym with those same views of the volcano, tennis and pickle-ball courts, and solid ocean programming that includes sunrise paddles in the resort’s outrigger canoe, paddle boarding, snorkeling, and diving. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for outrigger

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Noun

Most come for the views and the opportunity to ride the scenic private catamaran and then funicular to the tippy-top.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2026
Then our catamaran pulled away, the shoreline opened up into volcanic rock, pale limestone cliffs, and small churches perched high above the water.

— Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of catamaran

Noun

Title partner Bombay Sapphire is also holding an exclusive race-day celebration on a private Team Brady yacht docked at the Ocean Club.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2026
In Un Posto al Sole, Goldberg played Eleanor Price, an American businesswoman who travels to Naples to commission a yacht and deal with some unfinished business from her past.

— Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of yacht

Noun

When the cutter arrived at Mona Island, the situation was chaotic and complex.

— Pedro Portal, Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2026
As a seventh-round draft choice out of Northeastern, Schlittler wasn’t always throwing gas with a devastating curveball mixed in with a cutter and sinker.

— Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of cutter

Noun

Reënactors dressed as British soldiers got in a dory and rowed from the schooner to the beach’s edge.

— Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
Built by master Konjo shipwrights in South Sulawesi using dense tropical teak and ironwood, Silolona and its sister phinisi schooner, Si Datu Bua, venture where few travelers have sailed before.

— Luke Abrahams, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of schooner

Noun

The new 280-footer, currently known as Project 410, will become the world’s largest sloop upon launch.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2026
Sailing aboard a 30-foot sloop on Acapulco Bay, Henry Kissinger kept a protective arm around his new wife, as a motorboat filled with the press corps followed.

— Robert D. Mcfadden, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of sloop

Noun

This sailing school follows both Sail Canada's and keelboat certification programs as well.

— Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
However, apart from his time competing on high-speed M32 catamarans, Canfield’s experience and success have come through racing traditional keelboats.

— Andrew Rice, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025

Definition of keelboat

Noun

From time to time, Li Shan would offer Noe a sum impressive to a fisherman to sail his lugger—a forty-foot vessel made for the shallower waters of home into the Gulf to meet a ship bound for New Orleans.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
The excess metal goes into roll off boxes or lugger boxes at the customer's factory.

— Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 3 July 2025

Definition of lugger

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