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whitewater rafting en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Traveling by raft through a section of a river which is churning with rapids, as for sport or adventurism.
   • Karleigh had been on a six-week African adventure holiday when she went whitewater rafting on the treacherous Zambesi River rapids. 2007, Sam Riches, "Family, friends mourn woman killed in rafting accident," adelaidenow.com (Australia), 15 Oct. (retrieved 9 May 2011)
   • Apart from ice hockey and football, Lavrov is said to be happiest going white water rafting and fishing with friends in Siberia. 2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian:
   • Scheduled, too, during the tour . . . is a visit to Big Bend Country, where jagged canyons cutting among towering limestone cliffs offer whitewater rafting on the Rio Grande. 1987 February 1, Lawrence Van Gelder, “Travel Advisory”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 May 2011:

Forms

Translations (11)

mi eke kohuka (traveling by raft) · pl rafting (traveling by raft) · es descendimiento de aguas bravas (traveling by raft) · es descensión de aguas rápidas (traveling by raft) · es descenso en aguas blancas (traveling by raft) · es rafting (raftin) (traveling by raft) · cmn 泛舟 (traveling by raft) · cmn 漂流 (traveling by raft) · pl spływ rzeczny (traveling by raft) · sv forsränning (traveling by raft) · fi koskenlasku kumiveneellä (traveling by raft)