rowing boat

chiefly British

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rowing boat
Noun
  • There’s something wonderfully timeless about pushing off from shore in a canoe as the paddles dip quietly through calm water as dragonflies skim by.
    Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 29 June 2025
  • The next day was opening day, so the group paddled canoes around the shores of Perent Lake looking for moose.
    Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Search and Rescue is a volunteer on-the-ground team that uses drones, K-9 units, rafts, and more to comb large areas in the aftermath of natural disasters.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 7 July 2025
  • The other oar was smashed off, and the raft was littered up with leaves and branches and dirt.
    John Nogowski, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • Newton enlisted the help of his younger brother and a friend, who agreed to follow along behind him in a rowboat with food and other supplies.
    Nick Woltman, Twin Cities, 6 July 2025
  • Adventure intel: Green Lake, the larger of the two, has a sandy public beach with swimming access and a boat house that rents rowboats and kayaks (from $12 an hour).
    Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Explore more than 75 boats, including pontoons, deck boats and bow riders from more than a dozen top brands.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • Ski Patrol rents ski boats and pontoons ($225 for two hours) as well as jet skis ($180 for two hours).
    Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Decorate a patriotic dinghy 12 feet and under and enter the parade.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2025
  • Or rather, the slow, clinging descent down the dinghy’s slippery three-step ladder into what might as well have been a black hole, the water was so opaque.
    Billie Cohen, AFAR Media, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Tina Hambly, the 55-year-old mother of Joyce's best friend and roommate, helped with the search for the college friends using a kayak oar to poke at branches and other debris.
    Abigail Adams, People.com, 7 July 2025
  • Oru Lake Kayak for $399 (100 off) Oru Kayak Oru's foldable kayaks are genius—all the boat, none of the size.
    Scott Gilbertson, Wired News, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • And today there’s a big casino with roller skating where Old Man Dill used to moor the three leaky skiffs which comprised his boat livery.
    Ted Janes, Outdoor Life, 29 May 2025
  • The boat’s prow grated on the shore and Larry hauled it up among the rushes beside a battered skiff.
    Ted Janes, Outdoor Life, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • And nearly 40% of Gen Z employees maintain side gigs, not out of passion, but as a necessary means to pay their bills.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • The tour will then move on to the Middle East with gigs in the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, before hitting Kazakhstan, Armenia, Turkey and Uzbekistan, wrapping up on August 10 at the Central Stadium in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 June 2025
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“Rowing boat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rowing%20boat. Accessed 17 Jul. 2025.

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