Boating

Full definition of boating

Noun

1. the activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat
• 1853, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe (volume 1, page 95)I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings.
2. (historical) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

Verb

1. Present participle of boat