paddling
划水,划桨,划船,划动
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Definitions
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- : a short, flat bladed oar for propelling and steering a canoe or small boat, usually held by both hands and moved more or less through a vertical arc.
- : any of various similar implements used for mixing, stirring, or beating.
- : any of various similar but smaller implements with a short handle for holding in one hand and a wide or rounded blade, used for a racket in table tennis, paddle tennis, etc.
- : such an implement or a similarly shaped makeshift one, used to spank or beat someone.
- : an implement used for beating garments while washing them in running water, as in a stream.
- : Also called float, floatboard. a blade of a paddle wheel.
- : paddle wheel.
- : any of the blades by which a water wheel is turned.
- : a flipper or limb of a penguin, turtle, whale, etc.
- : an act of paddling.
- : Also pat·tle [pat-l, paht-l] /ˈpæt l, ˈpɑt l/ .British Dialect. a small spade with a long handle, used to dig up thistles.
- : a panel that slides to permit the passage of water.
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pad·dled, pad·dling.
- : to propel or travel in a canoe or the like by using a paddle.
- : to row lightly or gently with oars.
- : to move by means of paddle wheels, as a steamer.
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pad·dled, pad·dling.
- : to propel with a paddle: to paddle a canoe.
- : to spank or beat with or as with a paddle.
- : to stir, mix, or beat with or as with a paddle
- : to convey by paddling, as a canoe.
- : to hit with a paddle.
Phrases
- paddle one's own canoe
- up the creek (without a paddle)
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
This video follows professional kayaker Dane Jackson and his friends as they paddle through one of its narrowest sections, only accessible by kayak.
The moment you land, two paddlers hop out, hoist the two packs and paddles, and hit the trail.
This means that on portages, two people each grab a bag and some paddles, and the third person hoists the canoe.
These breaks can vary from beginner to advanced, depending on where you paddle out, how shallow the sandbank is, and how strong the current is.
Meanwhile, the rover’s back wheels paddled from side to side.
Others plan where to paddle into the surf off Black's Beach to catch a wave when the big breakers start rolling in.
Ever obliging, Springsteen then flexed all the right things on a paddle board.
His paddle had “FAH-Q” painted on one side, and “O.B./Badass” painted on the other.
I have good balance, but it was basically the first time I had ever been on a paddle board.
What do you call it when a husband beats his wife with a paddle for disobeying him?
Then she would turn him over on his back and paddle his stomach with a ladle to make sure that he was well filled!
The girls were dressed in such boating costumes as gave them the very freest movement, and they both used the paddle skillfully.
But suddenly Jessie drove her paddle deep into the water and sent the canoe in a dash to the landing.
The 'Syria' was originally a paddle-wheel steamer, having oscillating cylinders worked with steam of 25 lbs.
An article in 'The Times' gives in strong contrast the relative value of screw and paddle-wheels as propellers.