sailing

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The sport or activity of travelling in a boat that uses the wind.

   We went sailing on the lake last weekend.

2. 2
   noun

   A planned trip made by a ship or ferry.

   The next sailing to the island leaves at noon.

From Middle English seyling, sayling, from Old English seġling, seġlung (“sailing”), from Proto-West Germanic *siglingu, *seglungu, from Proto-Germanic *siglingō (“sailing”); equivalent to sail + -ing. Cognate with Middle Low German sēgelinge (“sailing”), Swedish segling (“sailing”), Icelandic sigling (“sailing”).

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