boat
noun
a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
is boating
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present progressiveof boat (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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There is boating, and the river looks quite gay with boats with striped and colored awnings to protect the fair ones from the sun.
From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
The chief amusement of Westminster boys is boating; for which the proximity of the Thames affords great advantages; also cricket, racket, quoits, sparring, foot-races, leaping, and single-stick.
From Harper's Young People, April 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
