boating

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat.

   “I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings.”

   “With the old boatmen holding annual re-unions at Rolling Green Park, tales and exciting moments of boatings and fishing in the old canal are told and re-told among veteran boatmen.”

2. (countable, historical, uncountable)In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of boat