sailing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪ.lɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English saylinge, seilinge, variants of sailende, seilende; equivalent to sail +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch zeilend (“sailing”).

Verb

sailing

1. present participle and gerund of sail

Adjective

sailing (not comparable)

1. Travelling by ship.

Derived terms

• land sailing
• oblique sailing
• plane sailing
• rhumb sailing
• sailing boat
• sailing dinghy
• sailing-ice
• sailing-master
• sailing ship
• sailing vessel
• smooth sailing
• stadium sailing
• traverse sailing

 

Translations

travelling by ship

• Bulgarian: ветроходен (vetrohoden)
• Esperanto: veladi, navigi (eo), lofi, ŝipiri
• Finnish: purjehtiva (fi), purjehdus-
• German: segeln (de)
• Hebrew: שַׁיִט (he) m (shayit)
• Norwegian: seilende
• Polish: żeglować (pl)
• Swedish: seglande (sv)
• Tagalog: paglalayag

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)

1. Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise
2. Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel
3. the time of departure from a port
4. (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.

Derived terms

• clear sailing
• plain sailing
• Thames sailing barge

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

skill to operate a vessel

• Bulgarian: ветроходство (bg) n (vetrohodstvo)
• Finnish: navigointi (fi)
• Greek: ιστιοπλοΐα (el) f (istioploḯa)
• Spanish: náutica (es) f

time of departure

• Bulgarian: отплаване n (otplavane)
• Finnish: lähtöaika (fi)

scheduled voyage

• Finnish: purjehdus (fi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: seiling m or f

References

• “sailing”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• Gilanis, ailings, aisling, nilgais