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rowboat

noun

Definition of rowboat

as in canoe

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Recent Examples of rowboat Even a rowboat can become garden gold with a little imagination. — Marisa Suzanne Martin, The Spruce, 6 May 2026 Although San Francisco Bay is cold, the fitness icon Jack La Lanne once swam to the island pulling a rowboat, and several children also made the swim. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026 On high-water days, tourists board a rowboat ferry for the two-minute trip. — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026 Other unmissable experiences include taking a wooden rowboat into the Blue Grotto and riding the seggiovia (an open-air chairlift for one) to Monte Salario. — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for rowboat

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Noun

The water sports pavilion has all the gear to take advantage of the embarrassment of adventure the Caribbean has to offer, from e-foiling boards to swim flippers to canoes.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2026
A day earlier, authorities intercepted another equally small and overcrowded canoe-like boat carrying more than 200 people.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of canoe

Noun

Three officers in a patrol boat saw him and two other people riding in a dinghy with a blue canopy in Cow Channel.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026
Operating as close as possible to the Libyan search-and-rescue zone, its crew deployed fast rigid inflatable boats (RHIBs) to reach overcrowded inflatable dinghies before larger rescue vessels could arrive.

— Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 17 July 2026

Definition of dinghy

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Matt Steven stepped into the booth at the start of 2026, having already coached New Zealand’s 49er skiff crew to an Olympic silver medal at Paris 2024.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
The teen told White that his brother was still under the skiff at the time of his rescue, according to the Anchorage Daily News.

— Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of skiff

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Ross’ personal belongings, including his cellphone, were found inside the kayak, according to a news release from the Town of Lake Waccamaw.

— Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2026
Searchers have found a body one day after an empty kayak appeared in North Carolina’s Lake Waccamaw, according to investigators.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of kayak

Noun

Highlights and experiences It is always a special event stepping out of Venice’s airport onto a pontoon and a polished mahogany water taxi that drops you off canalside near your hotel, after a purr through the Grand Canal.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026
Prosecutors said boater Richard Stevenson, of Lisle, was intoxicated and traveling at about 80 mph in July on the river when his pontoon hit a boat carrying Magdalena Jablonska of Des Plaines, decapitating her, authorities said.

— Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of pontoon

Noun

Story of the steamboat Washoe The Washoe was a 385-ton side-wheel paddleboat with four 32-foot-long iron boilers set on the deck, the Deadliest American Disasters site said.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2026
One of the nation’s largest urban parks, this 1,300-acre expanse has golf, paddleboats, a live oak estimated to be 800 years old, a botanical garden, and the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA).

— Jenny Adams, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2026

Definition of paddleboat

Noun

Wooden pirogue boats idle in the bay, while young people do odd jobs – rolling car tires across town or selling bags of tap water – to help their parents make ends meet.

— Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2025
Offshore, kite surfers dance across the lagoon while fishermen paddle slender pirogues above shallow coral gardens alive with neon wrasse and ghostly butterflyfish.

— Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025

Definition of pirogue

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