Used in a Sentence

canoeing

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for canoeing.

Editorial note

The subject, in this case, is the fact that people take canoeing trips for reasons other than efficient travel.

Examples19
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A water sport involving travelling or racing in canoes or kayaks.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of canoeing gathered in one view.

noun

A water sport involving travelling or racing in canoes or kayaks.

noun

(smoking) When a cigar, cigarette, or joint burns unevenly, burning more on one side.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for canoeing.

noun

A water sport involving travelling or racing in canoes or kayaks.

noun

(smoking) When a cigar, cigarette, or joint burns unevenly, burning more on one side.

Example sentences

1

The subject, in this case, is the fact that people take canoeing trips for reasons other than efficient travel.

2

On the flip side, canoeing in a river full of gators is definitely a fun experience!

3

Everyone there is super friendly and have kayaking and canoeing as well and free lessons.

4

Have both McPhee and Somers forgotten that canoeing is done in a canoe, and canoes don't work very well on grass?

5

I just don't think it's substitutable, and I think it's trivializing just how different Civilization is from canoeing.

6

I have to say that the paragraph about the canoeing strikes me as wrongheaded in another respect.

7

I live about 30-40 miles south of the Cities and go canoeing on the lakes nearby.

8

Field and Stream magazine doesn't have many footballs in it, yet the diversions it covers have a strong overlap with a diversion like canoeing.

9

My girlfriend and I met another couple to go canoeing one day on town lake.

10

Algonquin canoeing, I can do that, but for a few months at the very least.

11

But they are, as it happens, completely inapplicable to canoeing.

12

Sometimes I'd make detours to go hiking or canoeing at a particular spot.

Quote examples

1

As nine year olds we snuck out and went canoeing on "borrowed" canoes.

2

I loved his comment about solo canoeing in his lake: "I always knew that to swim was to die, but I never had a problem".

3

Do you really think, in the quote about canoeing, that "sport" would have said remotely the same thing as "diversion of field"?

4

But canoeing doesn't, and couldn't, take place on any sort of field, and that (rather than anything to do with football fields specifically) is why I think "diversion of the field" an excessively inexact way to describe it, nice though it sounds.

Proper noun examples

1

Canoeing is a diversion, for sure, but not a diversion of the field.

2

We went White Water Canoeing, hiking, camping, etc.

3

Canoeing and sailing are also things I find helpful for thinking.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use canoeing in a sentence?

The subject, in this case, is the fact that people take canoeing trips for reasons other than efficient travel.

What does canoeing mean?

A water sport involving travelling or racing in canoes or kayaks.

What part of speech is canoeing?

canoeing is commonly used as noun.