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Rowing vs Canoe - What's the difference?

rowing | canoe |

As nouns the difference between rowing and canoe

is that rowing is the action of the verb to row while canoe is .

As a verb rowing

is .

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

    canoe

    English

    (wikipedia canoe)

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (Jamaican English)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.
  • *
  • *:He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,.
  • (lb) An oversize, usually older, luxury car.
  • Verb

    (d)
  • To ride or paddle a canoe.
  • Derived terms

    * canoeist

    See also

    * kayak

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