sailing

Meanings

Verb

• Present participle of sail

Adjective

• Travelling by ship.

Noun

• Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise
• Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel
• the time of departure from a port
• a scheduled voyage by a ferry or ship.

Origin

• From Middle English saylinge, seilinge, variants of sailende, seilende; equivalent to sail + -ing.
• From Middle English sailyng, seyling; equivalent to sail + -ing.