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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.

In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

ppr.

Transporting in boats.

Noun.

The act of practice of transporting in boats.

In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders by laying them on the back in a boat which is covered, where they perish.

boating ‎(countable and uncountable, plural boatings)

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.
- 1953, Pennsylvania Angler (volumes 22-23, page 61)
  With the old boatmen holding annual re-unions at Rolling Green Park, tales and exciting moments of boatings and fishing in the old canal are told and re-told among veteran boatmen.
(historical) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

The activity of going out in a boat

boating