sailing

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A scheduled voyage by a ferry or ship.

   1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries 'Then I should like a full list of the warships in Pentland Harbour, recent sailings, and those expected, please. The "Navy List" I suppose you have here?'

2. 2
   noun

   the departure of a vessel from a port

3. 3
   noun

   the activity of flying a glider

4. 4
   noun

   riding in a sailboat

5. 5
   noun

   the work of a sailor

6. 6
   verb

   present participle and gerund of sail

7. 7
   adj

   Travelling by ship.

8. 8
   noun

   Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise.

Etymology

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”).