sailing
say ling
- n the work of a sailor
- n riding in a sailboat
- n the departure of a vessel from a port
- n the activity of flying a glider
- v traverse or travel on (a body of water)
- v move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
- v travel on water propelled by wind
I love sailing, especially on the open sea - v travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
- He had been sailing boats for almost 50 yearshad handled almost every type of windjammer from the 15-footers he used to sail off Oyster Bay in his undergraduate Harvard days to .
- Other sailing cargo ships are also being designed or built in Great Britain, Belgium and California.
- In such big-boat races as the America's Cup and the Newport-Bermuda contest, the winner owes as much to his boat as he does to his own sailing savvy.