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airboating en · NOUN

Etymology

From airboat + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The activity of riding in an airboat.
    • Popular recreations in the larger Everglades, airboating and swamp-buggy rides are prohibited activities in the park. 2011, Harvey H Jackson III, editor, Sports & Recreation (The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture; 16), page 290:
    • The darkening sky only increased the feeling of vast distances, a sense that the world is flattening itself out beneath you,which makes airboating like nothing else on earth. 1963 December, “everglades skimmers”, in Motor Boating, volume 112, number 6, page 82:
    • As an indication of the wide spread interest in airboating, particularly that exhibited in the south during the past winter season, one has but to note the many points the compass represented by the following passengers took rides in the regular St. Petersburg-Tampa 19-mile airboat line operated, by the Benoist Aircraft Company using Benoist flying boats. 1913 June 13, “Winter Airboat Line Proves Popular”, in Aero and Hydro, volume VIII, number 11, page 137: