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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English saylinge, seilinge, variants of sailende, seilende; equivalent to sail + -ing. Cognate with Dutch zeilend (“sailing”).
Verb
sailing
- present participle and gerund of sail
Adjective
sailing (not comparable)
- Travelling by ship.
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Etymology 2
From Middle English sailyng, seyling, 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”).
Noun
sailing (countable and uncountable, plural sailings)
- Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise
- Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel
- the time of departure from a port
- (countable) a scheduled voyage by a ferry or ship.
1951 November, K. Westcott Jones, “Parkeston Quay and the Antwerp Continental Service”, in Railway Magazine, page 760:New ships were built to the order of the Great Eastern Railway, and the service frequency increased, until March 1879, saw a sailing every weekday to Rotterdam, and a thrice-weekly service to Antwerp.
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Translations
motion across water
- Arabic: إِبْحَار m (ʔibḥār)
- Bulgarian: ветроходство (bg) n (vetrohodstvo)
- Catalan: navegació a vela f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 航行 (zh) (hángxíng)
- Czech: plachtění n
- Dutch: zeilen (nl) n
- Esperanto: velado, lofado, navigado, ŝipiro
- Finnish: purjehtiminen (fi)
- French: navigation la voile f, navigation à voile f
- Galician: vela (gl) f
- German: Segeln (de) n
- Greek: ιστιοπλοΐα (el) f (istioploḯa)
- Hebrew: שֵׁיט מִפְרָשִׂים (he) m (sheit mifrasim)
- Hungarian: vitorlázás (hu)
- Italian: navigazione (it) f
- Japanese: 帆走 (ja) (はんそう, hansō)
- Korean: 항해 (ko) (hanghae)
- Latin: velificatio f
- Macedonian: пловење n (plovenje)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: seilas (no) n, seiltur m, seiling m or f
- Occitan: navegacion a vela f
- Polish: (act) żeglowanie (pl) n, (sport) żeglarstwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: navegação (pt) f, vela (pt) f
- Russian: па́русный спорт (ru) m (párusnyj sport)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: једрење n
- Roman: jedrenje (sh) n
- Spanish: navegación (es) f, navegación a vela (es) f
- Swedish: segling (sv) c
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skill to operate a vessel
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