Meaning

2 senses

  1. (intransitive)To use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak.

    Kayaking is an Olympic sport.

    travel in a small canoe

  2. (transitive)To traverse (a body of water) by kayak.

    On a dare, he kayaked the Harlem River in New York from Hell's Gate to Spyten Duyvil.

Examples

62 sentences

  1. We could go kayaking next weekend.

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  2. Tom might've gone kayaking by himself.

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  3. Tom never goes kayaking by himself.

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  4. I came here to go kayaking.

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  5. Tom likes kayaking, but I don't.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “hunter's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qa

Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “hunter's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ. Compare Greenlandic qajaq and Yup'ik qayaq.

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Forms

kayaks, kayaking, kayaked, kayaked
Base formkayak · to kayak
3rd person singularkayaks
Present participlekayaking
Past simplekayaked
Past participlekayaked

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theykayak
he, she, itkayaks

Past simpleLesson

all personskayaked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave kayaked
he, she, ithas kayaked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill kayak

Word family

4 related words
Derivedkayakablekayakerkayakingkayakist

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
kawaiikaykayakerkazookebab
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