SAILING


Meaning of SAILING in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ seɪlɪŋ ]

( sailings)

1.

Sailing is the activity or sport of sailing boats.

There was swimming and sailing down on the lake.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

Sailings are trips made by a ship carrying passengers.

Ferry companies are providing extra sailings from Calais...

N-COUNT : usu pl , oft supp N

3.

If you say that a task was not all plain sailing , you mean that it was not very easy.

Pregnancy wasn’t all plain sailing and once again there were problems...

PHRASE : usu v-link PHR

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