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Boating vs Rowing - What's the difference?

boating | rowing |

As nouns the difference between boating and rowing

is that boating is the activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat while rowing is the action of the verb to row.

As verbs the difference between boating and rowing

is that boating is present participle of lang=en while rowing is present participle of lang=en.

boating

English

Noun

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

    • Verb

    (head)

    • rowing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
    • (Sport rowing)

    Noun

  • The action of the verb to row .
  • The action of propelling a boat with oars.
  • The rowing of boats as a competitive sport.
  • The act of having a row, or argument.
  • * 1891 , The Guernsey Magazine
    • She and Ricketts — that's his father — just disgraced the neighbourhood with their rowings and their sprees

    Synonyms

    * sculling