as in kayak
a long narrow boat that is pointed at both ends and that is moved by a paddle with one blade
They took their canoe out on the river.
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Recent Examples of canoe
Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
With a dark green exterior and canoes hung outside the front door, L.L. Bean sells everything from outerwear and sweaters to vital camping gear.
—Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Dec. 2024
Katie Seemann, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2024
Activities include canoeing on the pond, skiing on the private slopes, axe-throwing, and perusing the gardens where produce for the two farm-to-table restaurants is grown.
—Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 2 Oct. 2024
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Noun
The fine print: The paddle canal is only open to non-motorized vessels like kayaks, canoes and stand-up paddle boards.
—Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
With a dark green exterior and canoes hung outside the front door, L.L. Bean sells everything from outerwear and sweaters to vital camping gear.
—Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Dec. 2024
Verb
Residents can even go canoeing or rowing on the Guadalquivir River.
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Málaga is a city on Spain’s Mediterranean coastline and the birthplace of Pablo Picasso, one of the most important artists of the 20th century.
—Katie Seemann, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2024
Activities include canoeing on the pond, skiing on the private slopes, axe-throwing, and perusing the gardens where produce for the two farm-to-table restaurants is grown.
—Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 2 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for canoe
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The company offered two-hour sessions with elephants that included activities ranging from cooking classes to kayak sessions.Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2025
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Take a kayak trip to the island’s many disparate aquatic ecosystems from salt marshes to the intracoastal waterway.Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 6 Jan. 2025
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According to media reports, the younger brother, 17, paddled out to retrieve a duck and flipped his kayak.Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 8 Jan. 2025
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Teams paddling down the rivers to actually measure it.Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
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Huang announced a raft of new chips, software and services, aiming to stay at the forefront of artificial intelligence computing.Kif Leswing, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2025
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From the region: Syria’s interim government has ordered a raft of changes to the country’s school curriculum — including editing the textbooks.Natasha Frost, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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The Shipwreck Bar is an actual schooner that once belonged to the resort’s original owner.Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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The schooner’s South Australian owner escaped conviction on slavery charges because the prosecution didn’t have enough evidence to prove that working conditions at the ship’s destination of Fiji constituted slavery.Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
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First, an explanation of the underlying poling data, which Franklin pulled together for this story.Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
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Years of poling clients to victory in his skiff kept his schedule booked nearly every day with anglers wanting to catch one of the Keys’ cherished sportfish — bonefish, permit or tarpon.Patrick Farrell, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2024
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The sailboats in the force ranged from day cruisers to 150-foot racing yachts.David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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Guo also gained notoriety for palling around with Trump adviser Steve Bannon, whose 2020 arrest on his own fraud charges took place on the tycoon’s yacht.Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2025
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This particular guy has bicycled 46,000 miles around the world for four years, rowed a boat across the Atlantic Ocean, and walked across the Empty Quarter Desert towing a giant homemade cart.Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 10 Jan. 2025
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This covert symbol was meant to communicate that the British were rowing across the Charles River, rather than marching on land.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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The shell was one of the only objects that survived a fire that burned down her great-grandmother’s home in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles in the early 1900s.Jennifer Medina, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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So, what happens then to the shells of carbon-rich dust?Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Canoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canoe. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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