Definition for Sailing:

• The act of sailing; the act or art of navigating; the act of moving on water, or of setting sail.

Synonyms for Sailing:

• adj.

  •asea (adjective)
  • more adrift,
  • be fuddled,
  • be-wildered,
  • be wildered,
  • most adrift,
  • be-fuddled.
  •floating (adjective)
  • un sinkable,
  • more nonsubmersible,
  • most unsinkable,
  • more unsinkable,
  • un-substantial,
  • more hovering,
  • non submersible,
  • un-sinkable,
  • more wafting,
  • non-submersible,
  • un-attached,
  • most wafting,
  • un substantial,
  • most hovering,
  • most nonsubmersible.
  •racing (adjective)
  • most whisking,
  • most hastening,
  • more whisking,
  • more darting,
  • most tearing,
  • more zooming,
  • most whizzing,
  • more galloping,
  • most darting,
  • more whizzing,
  • more hastening,
  • most galloping,
  • more tearing,
  • most zooming.
  •uncertain (adjective)
  • asea.

• n.

  •
  • canoe,
  • bail out,
  • beach,
  • boater,
  • Ahoy,
  • the America's Cup,
  • berth,
  • traveling,
  • anchor,
  • the Admiral's Cup.
  •
  • nautical.
  •act (noun)
  • sailing.
  •afloat (noun)
  • afloat.
  •boating (noun)
  • yachting,
  • sculling,
  • sailings.
  •cruise (noun)
  • boat trips,
  • sea trips.
  •departure (noun)
  • embarkation,
  • hegira,
  • walkouts,
  • egression,
  • setting out,
  • walkout,
  • egress,
  • conge,
  • vanishing act,
  • egressions,
  • setting forth,
  • taking leave.
  •glide (noun)
  • glide.
  •gliding (noun)
  • gliding.
  •racing (noun)
  • competings,
  • dashings,
  • sportings,
  • hurryings,
  • trottings,
  • gallopings,
  • whizzings,
  • sprintings,
  • dartings.
  •sailing (noun)
  • sailplaning,
  • at sea,
  • soaring.
  •travel (noun)
  • wanderings,
  • sightseeing,
  • weekend,
  • overnights,
  • globetrotting,
  • over night,
  • ridings,
  • weekends,
  • overnight,
  • globe-trotting.

• v.

  •boating (verb)
  • shipping,
  • Canoeing,
  • ferrying,
  • rowing.
  •sailing (verb)
  • piloting,
  • Navigating.
  •speeding (verb)
  • racing.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • marine,
  • on a trip,
  • deep-sea,
  • floating,
  • nonsubmersible,
  • oceangoing,
  • seagoing,
  • unsinkable,
  • sailorly,
  • oceanographic,
  • sea-loving.
  •n.
  • boating,
  • competition,
  • cruise,
  • departure,
  • employment,
  • exercise,
  • flight,
  • flying,
  • going,
  • going away,
  • hobby,
  • leaving,
  • navigation,
  • Olympic Games,
  • sail,
  • seafaring,
  • sport,
  • voyage,
  • wanderlust,
  • water sport,
  • water travel,
  • work,
  • boat trip,
  • sea trip,
  • rushings,
  • tearings.
  •Other relevant words:
  • recreation,
  • tourism,
  • transport,
  • travel.

Paraphrases for Sailing:

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    Ships, beginnings, walls, Les, vela, navigation.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    seafaring, vessel, headscarf, crossing, ship, ferry, passage, cloak.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Cruising, circulating, arriving, Terminating, traveling, Originating, steaming, steering, governing, operating, moving, passing, Carrying, ruling, pending, approaching, ensuring, entering, Fogging, serving, turning, heading, Stepping, Effecting, running, seafaring.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    sail, navigational, Navigating, yacht, nautical, boating.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    sail, sailboat, windsurfing, voyage, boat, navigation, navigational, Navigating, surf, yacht, boating.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    transiting, flying, Plying, proceeding, Navigating, boating.

Sailing Sentence Examples:

• At this rate of sailing, we ought to be up with Key West by morning.

• The fact that so strange an experience had befallen me in a New York hotel on the eve of my sailing could not be pure coincidence.

Homophones for Sailing:

• swelling, saling, scale moss, sex linkage, scolymus, slangy, salience, solemness, Succulency, squealing, Shalom Asch, succulence, slimness, sealing, slaying, sizzling, sullenness, solanaceae, solemnize, soiling, shallowness, Scaliness, Sholom Asch, sliminess, slowness, slink, sallowness, slyness, schooling, silliness, schilling, slang, scowling, slanguage, solemnise, shelling, Sal Ammoniac, Sholem Asch, slowing, scalenus, solomonic, scaling, swilling, saliency, sculling, squalling, shilling, Solan Goose, suckling, selling, solomons, sealing wax, salonica, so long, silenus, solanaceous, salmacis, silence, sling, salonika.

Hypernym for Sailing:

• n.

  • act
    luff, tack, beat, cabotage.

Hyponym for Sailing:

• n.

  • act
    water travel, going, departure, employment, going away, work, seafaring, leaving.

Meronym for Sailing:

• n.

  • act
    steerage, steering.