sailing

[sey-ling]

noun

1. the activity of a person or thing that sails.

2. the departure of a ship from port.

   The cruise line offers sailings every other day.

3. Navigation.,  any of various methods for determining courses and distances by means of charts or with reference to longitudes and latitudes, rhumb lines, great circles, etc.

sailing

/ ˈseɪlɪŋ /

noun

1. the practice, art, or technique of sailing a vessel

2. a method of navigating a vessel

   rhumb-line sailing

3. an instance of a vessel's leaving a port

   scheduled for a midnight sailing

Other Word Forms

• well-sailing adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of sailing¹

before 900; Middle English seiling, Old English seglung. See sail, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

She subsequently embarked on a sailing journey with Helen from New York to Barbados and then on through the Panama Canal.

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They knocked the ball around the yard — and sent one momentum-stealing blast sailing out of it.

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Earlier this month, his relatives said, Joseph told friends and family he was sailing home after visiting relatives and working as a farmhand in Venezuela, an hour-long trip.

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Now his crews have to journey into deeper, more perilous waters to find them, sometimes sailing as far south as Taiwan.

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While many of the most grandiose kid-friendly ships are currently sailing out of Florida, Southern California cruise fans can still get in on the at-sea fun.

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