ROWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rowing mean? 

• ROWING (noun)
  The noun ROWING has 1 sense:

1. the act of rowing as a sport

  Familiarity information: ROWING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROWING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of rowing as a sport

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

row; rowing

Hypernyms ("rowing" is a kind of...):

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Meronyms (parts of "rowing"):

feather; feathering (turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rowing"):

crab (a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply)

sculling (rowing by a single oarsman in a racing shell)

Derivation:

row (propel with oars)

 Context examples 

Then they both stopped rowing, and unconsciously added a pretty little tableau of human love and happiness to the dissolving views reflected in the lake.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“The brief window of summer would have barely been sufficient for rowing the many hundreds of miles north and back.”

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)

The squire raised his gun, the rowing ceased, and we leaned over to the other side to keep the balance, and all was so nicely contrived that we did not ship a drop.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And it won’t be comfortable in the boat rowing and sailing in this rainy weather.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We have such walks and drives, and rides, and rowing, and tennis, and fishing together; and I love him more than ever.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I now began to be weary, and seeing nothing to entertain my curiosity, I returned gently down towards the creek; and the sea being full in my view, I saw our men already got into the boat, and rowing for life to the ship.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

As they were rowing over the lake, the prince who was in the boat with the youngest princess and the soldier said, I do not know why it is, but though I am rowing with all my might we do not get on so fast as usual, and I am quite tired: the boat seems very heavy today.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Our boats were rowing as well as sailing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It would break my heart if you didn't believe that I'd gladly pull in the same boat with you, even if you had to get your living by rowing on the lake.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)