(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.
Paddle
Definition:
(v. i.) To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.
(v. i.) To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc.
(v. t.) To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.
(v. t.) To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
(v. t.) To pad; to tread upon; to trample.
(v. i.) An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
(v. i.) The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
(v. i.) One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
(v. i.) A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.
(v. i.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
(v. i.) A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
(v. i.) See Paddle staff (b), below.
Example Sentences:
(1) These people would be out of their depth in a paddling pool, and couldn’t be more unfit to run a modern political party.
(2) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
(3) We have found it to be efficacious in taking a proximal skin paddle, which decreases donor site morbidity and allows for a long vascular pedicle.
(4) Also, one or two skin paddles for cover and lining flaps are carried either by the cutaneous scapular and parascapular branches of the circumflex scapular vessels or by surgically split segments of the latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap.
(5) Following the recent announcement from Naoto Kan, the prime minister, that Japan would "start from scratch" with regard to future nuclear power expansion, we can be sure that there is plenty of paddling in Tokyo.
(6) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.
(7) Although there was partial epithelial loss of the skin "paddle" in 7 cases, in each case the surviving dermis became resurfaced with epithelium.
(8) On each trial subjects were instructed either to produce the syllable "pa" or not respond when they detected movement of a small paddle held between the lips.
(9) Paddling along the densely wooded coastline, the view ahead was suddenly broken by asymmetrical shapes rising up from a grassy headland.
(10) Uricult dip-slide paddles provide an inexpensive, efficient way to screen urine.
(11) We address the chief safety issues in helicopter defibrillation by providing measurements of the transient leakage current resulting from contact with a paddle and tested in-flight electronic interference and survey the defibrillation experience of helicopter programs.
(12) Paddle past women washing their colourful saris in the waterways, farmers herding their swimming ducks to pastures new and see wildlife that would otherwise have been scared away, before taking a dip to cool off.
(13) A technique of intraabdominal paddle placement for internal countershock has been used to successfully manage this complication.
(14) Each of these bones is fully differentiated by Gosner stage 31 (hindlimb in paddle stage) during premetamorphosis.
(15) SWANSEA CITY Accounts for the year to 31 May 2014 Ownership Martin Morgan, 23.7%; Brian Katzen, 21.1%; Swansea City Supporters Society Limited (supporters trust) 21.1%; chairman Huw Jenkins 13.2%; Robert Davies 10.5% Turnover 13th highest, £99m (up from £67m in 2013) Match income £9m Media £81m Commercial and other £9m Wage bill Joint 14th highest, £63m (up from £49m in 2013) Wages as proportion of turnover 64% Profit before tax £1m (down from £21m in 2013) Net debt Nil; £2m cash in the bank Interest payable £0.015m Highest-paid director Huw Jenkins, £550,000 State they’re in The Swans’ epic paddle from bottom division and insolvency to Premier League and new stadium owned by a consortium of fan-businessmen, including 20% held by the supporters trust, was committed to documentary with A Jack to a King.
(16) The cadaver injections were evaluated to determine the size and shape of the skin island used to reconstruct defects of the head, neck, and upper trunk with an extended skin paddle off the pectoralis major muscle.
(17) There was septal damage in the heart of one paddle dog.
(18) Both DZP and PTZ elevated paddling and wall progression, but only PTZ elevated head and body tremor scores.
(19) The emulsions were prepared by paddle mixing as a method of low-shear emulsification.
(20) It has moments of snort-out-loud laughter (the paddle steamer named the Wonderful Fanny, the Jane Austen vignette – see below).