(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.
Prologue
Definition:
(n.) The preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or performance; as, the prologue of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales;" esp., a discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance
(n.) One who delivers a prologue.
(v. t.) To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.
Example Sentences:
(1) The organisers are expecting 3 million people to line Yorkshire's highways and byways for the two stages – 2 million more than turned out for the Prologue of the 2007 tour, a time trial around London.
(2) Many of the answers are contained in the first words that Rylance spoke, in the prologue to Henry V .
(3) After a short prologue, where it's established that a tall man and a young boy survive whatever it is we're about to read (and end up in the far sunnier climes of Mexico), we meet the town itself.
(4) As Motion's prologue makes clear, this is a "found poem" – the literary equivalent of the objet trouvé (did Damien Hirst "make" that sheep he dunked in formaldehyde?
(5) In her prologue, Moran bemoans the fact that the women's revolution "had somehow shrunk down into a couple of increasingly small arguments, carried out between a couple of dozen feminist academics, in books that only feminist academics would read".
(6) The development of hospital and health care, the evolution of medical and pharmaceutical sciences, and the growth of pharmacy as a profession are described as prologue to the development of hospital pharmacy.
(7) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian What is Shakespeare's prologue but a prescription for avant garde theatre?
(8) A likely prologue for Liby's case came in April 2011, when US special operations forces captured Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame off the Somali coast.
(9) The physician information comes from Prologue's data base of more than 10,000 participating physicians in more than 45 specialties.
(10) A prologue on science and statistics focuses attention on the role of statistics in science.
(11) In the book’s prologue, Aristegui expresses disappointment with the owners of MVS Radio – the Vargas family – and says they suffered a “moral collapse” in agreeing to fire her.
(12) This prologue to a symposium of research studies on motor mechanisms is a general commentary by a clinical neurologist.
(13) "Like all children of divorce," her poignant prologue reads, "I want to see my parents back together."
(14) A likely prologue for Liby's case came in April 2011, when US special operations forces captured Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame off the Somali coast, and kept him in the brig of the USS Boxer for nearly three months of interrogation before the navy took him to the southern district of New York to face terrorism charges.
(15) The reader already knows more about this plot than Kenton does, because in the prologue we witness a gathering of the senior conspirators: a meeting of the board of the Pan-Eurasian Petroleum Company in the City of London.
(16) Click here to watch video The first minute is very slow and dark, a zen prologue of slow-evolving patterns.
(17) It was the prologue of the second world war; it generated a dictatorship that lasted almost 40 years and its effects continue into our times.
(18) This will be the fourth time since 2008 that the race has dispensed with the traditional prologue time trial, and on paper at least it should produce the classic scenario of an early breakaway caught as the finish approaches, offering Mark Cavendish a chance to win in the city which, by happy coincidence, is where his mother lives.
(19) There is a tendency to believe the past is prologue because former first lady Hillary Clinton has been such a big political figure, but I don’t think that’s the case.” Obama has become adept at using media appearances – most memorably James Corden’s carpool karaoke – to promote worthy causes to mass audiences.
(20) The lawsuit against Penguin and Arestegui, filed by the owners of MVS Radio on 29 May, demands the withdrawal of all copies of the book, a public apology and the removal of the book’s current prologue from any future editions.