boating

Etymology

noun

1. The activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat.
   I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings. 1853, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe, volume 1, page 95
   With the old boatmen holding annual re-unions at Rolling Green Park, tales and exciting moments of boatings and fishing in the old canal are told and re-told among veteran boatmen. 1953, Pennsylvania Angler, volumes 22-23, page 61
2. (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

1. present participle and gerund of boat