kayak
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 5
Definition of kayak
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(error-lua-timeout)A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position, from a hole in the surface deck.
“It’s just offshore from private property inaccessible to the general public, so a good way to approach the rock is by kayak, which can be rented in the small village of Port Austin.”
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noun
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(error-lua-timeout)A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position, from a hole in the surface deck.
“It’s just offshore from private property inaccessible to the general public, so a good way to approach the rock is by kayak, which can be rented in the small village of Port Austin.”
verb
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(error-lua-timeout, intransitive)To use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak.
“Kayaking is an Olympic sport.”
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(error-lua-timeout, transitive)To traverse (a body of water) by kayak.
“On a dare, he kayaked the Harlem River in New York from Hell's Gate to Spyten Duyvil.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “hunter's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ. Compare Greenlandic qajaq and Yup'ik qayaq.
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