What's the difference between dinghy and kayak?

Dinghy


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of boat used in the East Indies.
  • (n.) A ship's smallest boat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Most travel in overcrowded inflatable dinghies that have just one air pocket, making deflation more likely.
  • (2) The migrants rescued on Tuesday had been aboard five motorised dinghies and two larger vessels.
  • (3) He writes about a secondary school headmaster, dedicated to young people of all abilities and backgrounds: "Outside in the world the little meritocrats, those natural survivors, were climbing ... into dinghies, leaving the rest to make do with rafts.
  • (4) 'Libyan coastguard' speedboat attacked migrant dinghy, says NGO Read more The central Mediterranean route has always been a riskier option.
  • (5) When he was diagnosed as terminally ill two years later, he set up a Facebook page with a bucket list of things he wanted to achieve, including sky-diving, crowd-surfing in a rubber dinghy, and hugging an animal bigger than him (an elephant, it turned out).
  • (6) Several sailors were rescued from a yacht off the coast of Kent and from a dinghy in Portsmouth harbour.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Two migrants pull an overcrowded dinghy with Syrian and Afghan refugees arriving from the Turkish coasts to the Greek island of Lesbos.
  • (8) Even as the expulsions were under way, a rubber dinghy with about 40 men, women and children arrived from the shores of Turkey; on the other side of the Aegean, dozens of others were arrested trying to follow in their wake.
  • (9) Photograph: Eduardo Ruiz Samuel always tells people that his journey to reach Spain by dinghy lasted two years.
  • (10) A terrorist who comes into Greece via a dinghy from Turkey posing as a refugee couldn’t just pop up in London.
  • (11) This set includes six mini-figures including the pilot, rescuer, "stricken people", two water cannons, a submarine, dinghy and lighthouse.
  • (12) A dry-land winter training programme for dinghy-sailors is described.
  • (13) Their day had begun at the family’s home on a barge on the Thames, where neighbours had carpeted one community dinghy named Yorkshire Rose with 1,000 roses.
  • (14) Threatened with guns, 40 Syrian men, women and children got onto a small inflatable dinghy and were pushed into the water.
  • (15) Bharat Tamore, an assistant supervisor at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, was gazing out to sea when he spotted the dinghy drifting noiselessly towards the beach.
  • (16) Along the roadside, entrepreneurs sell everything from wellington boots and lifejackets to blocks of foam and inflatable dinghies.
  • (17) We have been told by the people who have arrived that the traffickers would literally push people to board rubber dinghies with weapons.
  • (18) Getting there is all a bit Blue Peter: at just gone 9am on a freezing weekday, I bounce over the waves in a motorised dinghy, then clamber up long-eroded steps - clinging nervously to a frayed length of rope - into a huge circular courtyard.
  • (19) But in a major tragedy last week, more than 300 migrants died in the Mediterranean Sea when their overcrowded rubber dinghies collapsed and sank in stormy weather.
  • (20) Four rubber dinghies, each carrying up to 100 west African migrants, are believed to have capsized after leaving Libya for Italy several days ago, the UN refugee agency said, based on accounts from survivors.

Kayak


Definition:

  • (n.) A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other Arctic tribes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Trout fishing is excellent in both, and after they fall over the edge of the Piedmont Plateau to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the lower stretches of both waterways boil into class-2 and -3 whitewater for kayakers and canoeists.
  • (2) There are kayaks and paddleboards to rent and a pontoon to swim out to.
  • (3) It was concluded that the circulatory and metabolic adjustments to kayak work are greater with kayak training than with bicycle training.
  • (4) I take a small kayak, I see electric eels, dolphins.
  • (5) Sea kayaking, wild swimming, rock climbing, mountain biking and hang gliding are hugely popular pastimes.
  • (6) Several privately owned canoe and kayak rental agencies offerguided and independent trips down the Mullica, Batsto, Oswego and Wading rivers.
  • (7) Ten moderately active male volunteers, age 19-30 years, completed one month of training on either a kayak or a bicycle ergometer (five men in each group).
  • (8) The best way to reach it is by kayak from Cala Feola bay (rentals starts at €25pp with guide for a three-hour tour).
  • (9) Kerala Kayaking offers good-value tours around the backwaters, taking you to try traditional chai and sweet paratha in floating cafes with friendly eagles that sit on your shoulders, and the guides explain the culture of the area.
  • (10) Avoid the polluting chugging houseboats that cruise along the motorway-like larger canals and take a kayak for a tenth of the price through the smaller, unexplored waterways.
  • (11) Following interval training designed to stress either the lower or upper body anaerobically, we have now shown that upper body exercise (kayaking) induces similar in vitro responses to those described for lower body exercise.
  • (12) Santorini Sea Kayak is a local company offering seven-day kayaking expeditions between Naxos and the islands of the Small Cyclades.
  • (13) Ryanair (ryanair.com) flies from Stansted to Podgorica from £44 one way More activity holidays in the Balkans Activities Abroad (01670 789991, activitiesabroad.com ) has family holidays around Montenegro's Kotor bay, with snorkelling, rafting and sea kayaking.
  • (14) Kayaks can be hired in the nearby town of Svendborg, while KajakInn also offers short training courses as well as guiding services.
  • (15) Depending on the water level, which varies with rainfall and snowmelt, the Green is popular with rafters and kayakers when high and with canoeists and tubers when low.
  • (16) Kayaking and fishing should be possible too, but check your dates as the season is short and popular.
  • (17) In east Yorkshire, Kevin Rushby enjoys the world-class coastal scenery around Flamborough Head , while across the Dales, kayaking is a great way to enjoy the vast tidal sands of the Cumbrian coast .
  • (18) Canoeing and kayaking are upper-body sports that make varying demands on the body, depending on the type of contest and the distance covered.
  • (19) The five-bedroom house is on almost half a hectare of land along Kailua Beach, Oahu, a favourite spot for windsurfers, kayakers and dogwalkers.
  • (20) With summer approaching, he dreaded another season of avoiding the beach and kayaking with his wife, Brianna.