yachting

• Rhymes: -ɒtɪŋ

yachting

1. present participle and gerund of yacht

yachting (countable and uncountable, plural yachtings)

1. (often attributive) A physical activity involving yachts, such as racing sailing boats, cruising to distant shores, or day-sailing along a coast.
   • 1950 December, R. C. J. Day and R. K. Kirkland, “The Kelvedon & Tollesbury Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 839:

     In those days, yachting on the east coast was a favourite relaxation, and it was proposed to extend the line for 1¾ miles to a pier on the River Blackwater, where yachts could be moored.

• IPA^(key): /jɔ.tiŋ/

yachting m (plural yachtings)

1. yachting

• “yachting”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.