motorboating
Americannoun
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the recreational activity of operating or traveling in a motorboat.
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a malfunction in audio equipment resulting in sounds like those produced by an outboard motor.
Etymology
Origin of motorboating
Example Sentences
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America's oldest motorboating trophy, the Gold Cup, is a gold-plated silver urn that looks like an inverted Napoleon's hat.
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But soaring appeals to its following as an exalted sport, related to powered flight as sail-boating is to motorboating.
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George II, deposed King of the ungrateful Greeks, was motorboating with his unobtrusive father-in-law, King Ferdinand I of Rumania.
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Engineer, mechanic, collector of salty jokes & limericks, Du Pont was nuts about motorboating, airplaning, etc.
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The interval before the arrival of the summer colonists they fill in with hiring native help, buying and remodeling their cottage, antiquing, motorboating.
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