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Synonyms for sailing
ˈseɪ lɪŋsail·ing

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  1. seafaring, navigation, sailingnoun

    the work of a sailor

    Synonyms:
    seafaring, water travel, navigation, gliding, soaring, pilotage, glide, piloting, sailplaning

  2. sailingnoun

    riding in a sailboat

    Synonyms:
    seafaring, sailplaning, soaring, glide, gliding, navigation

  3. sailingnoun

    the departure of a vessel from a port

    Synonyms:
    seafaring, sailplaning, soaring, glide, gliding, navigation

  4. glide, gliding, sailplaning, soaring, sailingnoun

    the activity of flying a glider

    Synonyms:
    seafaring, semivowel, navigation, gliding, glide, soaring, slide, coast, sailplaning

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  1. sailingnoun

    Synonyms:
    navigation, circumnavigation (sailing round), orthodromics, orthodromy

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How to use sailing in a sentence?

  1. Carolyn Spencer Brown:

    Critic Editors ' live and breathe cruising, sailing year-round and covering every aspect of the industry -- from new ships and programs to updated amenities and features, with so many wonderful cruise options available, it's never an easy list to narrow down, but these awards truly represent the lines that our experts have recognized as the best of the best.

  2. Michael Schwarz:

    I just pray that we get there safely, it’s gonna be exciting, it’s gonna be vibrant. I think it will really put a shot in the arm to everybody that if they’re sailing, things are a little bit back to normal.

  3. Neil Roberts:

    Unless it is there would be no prospect of premiums rising, the shallow waters and numerous reefs in the Spratly island region means that commercial shipping is unlikely to be sailing within the territorial waters of any of the islands.

  4. France German sailor Philipp Buhl:

    (With it) we can digitally view the currents, based on thousands of measurements we did over the last three years with Sailing Team Germany and it gives you the basic patterns of the current combined with wind direction and wind speed, that is a key part in our decision which side we will chose to sail in.

  5. Laziza Lambert:

    Cruisers love to cruise, and they will go where the ships are sailing.


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