Kayak meaning

kīăk
kayaking kayaks
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An Inuit or Yupik boat consisting of a light wooden frame covered with watertight skins except for a single or double opening in the center, and propelled by a double-bladed paddle.
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An Eskimo canoe made of skins completely covering a wooden frame except for an opening in the middle for the paddler.
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Any similarly designed canoe for one or two paddlers, made of canvas, plastic, fiberglass, etc.
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To paddle, or go in, a kayak.
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A lightweight boat of similar or open design.
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A type of small boat, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position.
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(intransitive) To use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak.

Kayaking is an Olympic sport.

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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.

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To go, travel, or race in a kayak.
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To go or travel on (a body of water) by kayak.

Kayaked rapids of the Colorado River.

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Origin of kayak

  • Inuit Yupik qajaq

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Inuktitut (Western Canadian Inuktitut) ᖃᔭᖅ (qajaq, “man's boat”), from Proto-Eskimo *qyaq.

    From Wiktionary

Kayak Sentence Examples

  • You can canoe, kayak or whitewater raft the many lakes and rivers.

  • The Athapascan covered all north-western Canada with his open and portable birch-bark canoe, somewhat resembling the kayak in finish.

  • Commencing in the Arctic region, the Eskimo in his kayak, consisting of a framework of driftwood or bone covered with dressed sealskin, could paddle down east Greenland, up the west shore to Smith Sound, along Baffin Land and Labrador, and the shores of Hudson Bay throughout insular Canada and the Alaskan coast, around to Mount St Elias, and for many miles on the eastern shore of Asia.

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