whitewater rafting

See also: white-water rafting, and white water rafting

English

Whitewater rafting

Alternative forms

• white-water rafting, white water rafting

Noun

whitewater rafting (uncountable)

1. Traveling by raft through a section of a river which is churning with rapids, as for sport or adventurism.
   • 1987 February 1, Lawrence Van Gelder, “Travel Advisory”, in New York Times, retrieved 9 May 2011:

     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.

   • 2007, Sam Riches, "Family, friends mourn woman killed in rafting accident," adelaidenow.com (Australia), 15 Oct. (retrieved 9 May 2011):

     Karleigh had been on a six-week African adventure holiday when she went whitewater rafting on the treacherous Zambesi River rapids.

   • 2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Apart from ice hockey and football, Lavrov is said to be happiest going white water rafting and fishing with friends in Siberia.

Translations

traveling by raft

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漂流 (zh) (piāoliú), (literary) 泛舟 (zh) (fànzhōu)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: koskenlasku kumiveneellä
• Maori: eke kohuka
• Polish: spływ rzeczny m, rafting m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: descenso en aguas blancas m
• Swedish: forsränning c

References

• “whitewater rafting”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.