boating

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: boat=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

boating, n. 

•  The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.  [1913 Webster]
•  In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

boating, n. rowing or sailing in boats as a sport or form of recreation.

THESAURUS

boating

canoeing, circumnavigation, coasting, cruising, gunkholing, motorboating, navigability, navigating, navigation, passage-making, periplus, rowing, sailing, sculling, sea travel, seafaring, steaming, travel by water, voyaging, water travel, yachting

ROGET THESAURUS

boating

Navigation

N navigation, aquatics, boating, yachting, ship, oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron, natation, swimming, fin, flipper, fish's tail, aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics, balloonery, balloon, ballooning, aviation, airmanship, flying, flight, volitation, wing, pinion, rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting, voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus, headway, sternway, leeway, fairway, mariner, flight, trip, shuttle, run, airlift, sailing, volant, aerostatic, seafaring, nautical, maritime, naval, seagoing, coasting, afloat, navigable, aerial, aeronautic, grallatory, under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam, on the wing, in flight, in orbit, bon voyage, spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.