| Main Entry: | boating |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | travel, recreation in water |
Synonyms: |
canoeing, cruising, drifting, paddling, rowing, sailing, sculling, trawling, yachting |
| Main Entry: | cruise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sail |
Synonyms: |
boat, coast, drift, fare, gad, gallivant, go, hie, jaunt, journey, keep steady pace, meander, navigate, pass, proceed, push on, repair, travel, voyage, wander about, wend |
| Main Entry: | nautical/naval |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning ships, sea |
Synonyms: |
abyssal, aquatic, boating, cruising, deep-sea, marine, maritime, navigating, navigational, oceangoing, oceanic, oceanographic, pelagic, rowing, sailing, sailorly, salty, sea-loving, seafaring, seagoing, thalassic, yachting |
| Main Entry: | navigation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | traveling, guiding along route, often over water |
Synonyms: |
aeronautics, boating, cruising, exploration, flying, helmsmanship, nautics, navigating, ocean travel, pilotage, piloting, plotting a course, sailing, seafaring, seamanship, shipping, steerage, steering, voyage, voyaging, yachting |
| Main Entry: | paddle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | propel with arms or tool |
Synonyms: |
boat, cruise, cut water, drift, drive, navigate, oar, pull, row, run rapids, scull, sky an oar, slop, splash, stir, sweep, thrash, wade |
| Main Entry: | sail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | travel through water, air; glide |
Synonyms: |
boat, captain, cast anchor, cast off, cross, cruise, dart, drift, embark, flit, float, fly, get under way, leave, make headway, motor, move, navigate, pilot, put to sea, reach, run, scud, set sail, shoot, skim, skipper, skirr, soar, steer, sweep, tack, voyage, weigh anchor, wing |
| Main Entry: | voyage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | journey, often by water |
Synonyms: |
boating, crossing, cruise, excursion, hop, jaunt, junket, overnight, passage, sail, swing, tour, travel, travels, trek, trip, weekend |
| Notes: | a passage is a one-way boat crossing; a voyage is a round trip journey by sea |
| Main Entry: | nautical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sea |
Synonyms: |
abyssal, aquatic, boating, cruising, deep-sea, marine, maritime, naval, navigating, navigational, oceangoing, oceanic, oceanographic, pelagic, rowing, sailing, sailorly, salty, sea-loving, seafaring, seagoing, ship, thalassic, yachting |
| Main Entry: | navigational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nautical |
Synonyms: |
aquatic, boating, marine, maritime, navigating, oceanic, seafaring, shipping |
| Concept: | [Locomotion by water, or air] Navigation. |
| Category: | 1. Motion in General |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
navigation; aquatics; boating, yachting; ship; oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron., natation, swimming; fin, flipper, fish's tail., aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics; balloonery; balloon; ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation; wing, pinion., voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus; headway, sternway, leeway; fairway., mariner.
-verbs
sail; put to sea (depart); take ship, get under way; set sail, spread sail, spread canvas; gather way, have way on; make sail, carry sail; plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean; walk the waters., navigate, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise, coast; hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate., ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam., swim, float; buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer, dive, wade., fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter; take wing, take a flight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate.
-adjectives
sailing; volant, aerostatic; seafaring, nautical, maritiime, naval; seagoing, coasting; afloat; navigable; aerial, aeronautic; grallatory.
-adverbs
under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam; on the wing.
-phrases
bon voyage; "spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale" [Pope].
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