sliding seat

American  

noun

1. a rower's seat that rides on wheels in metal tracks fastened to the boat's frame, allowing the seat to slide back and forth, thereby tapping the rower's leg strength to maximize the stroke.

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sliding seat British  

noun

1. rowing a seat that slides forwards and backwards with the oarsman, lengthening his stroke

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Etymology

Origin of sliding seat

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

These athletes are not able to utilise a sliding seat when rowing.

From BBC

They rowed with cold rainwater running down their backs, pooling in the bottom of the boat, and sloshing back and forth under their sliding seats.

From Literature

Take, for instance, the case of a certain oarsman who found the dinner forms rather too rigid after his first day on sliding seats.

From Project Gutenberg

Unfortunately it so happens that sliding seats give so much extra power that even bad sliding à la Boyd produces more pace than good fixed-seat rowing.

From Project Gutenberg

But I prefer to leave the general subject of combined rowing, whether in eights or fours, to a later chapter, while I attempt to explain the mysteries and difficulties of the sliding seat.

From Project Gutenberg