YACHTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yachting mean? 

• YACHTING (noun)
  The noun YACHTING has 1 sense:

1. water travel for pleasure

  Familiarity information: YACHTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YACHTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Water travel for pleasure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

boating; yachting

Hypernyms ("yachting" is a kind of...):

seafaring; water travel (travel by water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yachting"):

bareboating (boating by chartering a bareboat and providing your own crew and provisions)

Derivation:

yacht (travel in a yacht)

 Context examples 

There was a small picture of Gatsby, also in yachting costume, on the bureau—Gatsby with his head thrown back defiantly—taken apparently when he was about eighteen.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I began to walk about the room, examining various indefinite objects in the half darkness. A large photograph of an elderly man in yachting costume attracted me, hung on the wall over his desk.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

A few days later he took him to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pair of white duck trousers and a yachting cap. And when the Tuolomee left for the West Indies and the Barbary Coast Gatsby left too.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)