kayak

Meanings

Noun

• A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position, from a hole in the surface deck

Verb

• To use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak.
• To traverse (a body of water) by kayak.

Origin

• Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ ("man's boat") (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qyaq.