whitewater rafting

whitewater rafting

See also: white-water rafting and white water rafting

English

Whitewater rafting

Alternative forms

• white-water rafting, white water rafting

Noun

whitewater rafting (uncountable)

1. Traveling by raft through a section of a river which is churning with rapids, as for sport or adventurism.
   • 1987, Lawrence Van Gelder, "Travel Advisory," New York Times, 1 Feb. (retrieved 9 May 2011):

     Scheduled, too, during the tour . . . is a visit to Big Bend Country, where jagged canyons cutting among towering limestone cliffs offer whitewater rafting on the Rio Grande.

   • 2007, Sam Riches, "Family, friends mourn woman killed in rafting accident," adelaidenow.com (Australia), 15 Oct. (retrieved 9 May 2011):

     Karleigh had been on a six-week African adventure holiday when she went whitewater rafting on the treacherous Zambesi River rapids.

   • 2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian‎:

     Apart from ice hockey and football, Lavrov is said to be happiest going white water rafting and fishing with friends in Siberia.

Translations

traveling by raft

Chinese: Mandarin: 漂流 (zh) (piāoliú), (literary) 泛舟 (zh) (fànzhōu) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: koskenlasku kumiveneellä Maori: eke kohuka Polish: spływ rzeczny m, rafting m Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Spanish: descenso en aguas blancas m Swedish: forsränning c

References

• whitewater rafting at OneLook Dictionary Search