What's the difference between kayak and pirogue?

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.

Pirogue


Definition:

  • (n.) A dugout canoe; by extension, any small boat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One large trawler, it is calculated, can catch as much as 250 tonnes of fish a day, roughly what 50 pirogues might catch in a year.
  • (2) We sent in our air force and they neutralised the three pirogues.
  • (3) There used to be 750 pirogues working here, but now there are 1,500."
  • (4) I’m sure that this will be the beginning of development because no one will now be afraid to come here for fishing, building a house or doing agriculture.” As a loudspeaker warns people away, fishermen paddle their pirogues to a safe distance.
  • (5) Twenty-five miles out to sea and in great danger from turbulent seas are small, open pirogues crewed by handfuls of local fishermen, taking pitifully few fish.
  • (6) Then, over a period of months, the material – mostly written in Arabic, but also centuries-old texts in Greek, Latin, French, English and German – was smuggled out on buses, cars or pirogue boats to the south on the Niger river.
  • (7) A decade ago he could catch enough in a three-day trip to fill his 30ft-long wooden pirogue; today, he and his colleagues say they are lucky to earn enough to pay the diesel for their vessels.
  • (8) They came on board three pirogues and succeeded in killing about 10 people before being pushed back by the army,” said a resident of the village of Ngouboua, about 12 miles east of the Nigerian border, to which thousands of Nigerian refugees had fled in early January after an attack on the town of Baga.

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