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yachting

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yacht  (yät)
n.
Any of various relatively small sailing or motor-driven vessels, generally with smart graceful lines, used for pleasure cruises or racing.
intr.v. yacht·ed, yacht·ing, yachts
To sail, cruise, or race in a yacht.

[Probably obsolete Norwegian jagt, from Middle Low German jacht, short for jachtschip : jagen, to chase (from Old High German jagn) + schip, ship.]

yachting [ˈjɒtɪŋ]
n
(Transport / Nautical Terms)
a.  the sport or practice of navigating a yacht
b.  (as modifier) yachting clothes
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.yachtingyachting - water travel for pleasure            
water travel, seafaring - travel by water
bareboating - boating by chartering a bareboat and providing your own crew and provisions; "we saved money by bareboating"
Translations
yachting [ˈjɒtɪŋ] Nnavegación f a vela, balandrismo m
the yachting fraternitylos aficionados al deporte de la vela
a yachting tripuna excursión en barco de vela
yachting [ˈjɒtɪŋ]
nyachting m
modif [world, event] → de la voile; [association, trophy, title, team] → de voile yachting trip
yachting trip ncroisière f
yacht race ncourse f à la voile
yachting
nSegeln nt

yachting:
yachting cap
nSeglermütze f
yachting circles
plSegelkreise pl
yachting cruise
n(Segel)kreuzfahrt f, → Segelreise f
yachting holiday
n (Brit) → Segelurlaub m
yachting jacket
nSegeljacke f
yachting [ˈjɒtɪŋ] nyachting m, navigazione f da diporto
yachting [ˈjɒtɪŋ] nyachting m, navigazione f da diporto


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I am disposed to admire and respect the 52-foot linear raters on the word of a man who regrets in such a sympathetic and understanding spirit the threatened decay of yachting seamanship.
At this port (when the season for visitors was at an end) we could embark far more privately than at the popular yachting stations situated in the Isle of Wight.
Now, this gentleman had a younger brother of still better appearance than himself, who had tried life as a Cornet of Dragoons, and found it a bore; and had afterwards tried it in the train of an English minister abroad, and found it a bore; and had then strolled to Jerusalem, and got bored there; and had then gone yachting about the world, and got bored everywhere.
 
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