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Paddling backwards through history in a boat older than the wheel's good reputation.
means The act of propelling a slim, open boat through water using a single-bladed paddle, typically while kneeling or sitting.
from From "canoe," which English borrowed in the 16th century from Spanish "canoa" — a word the Spanish themselves had picked up in the Caribbean from the Taíno people, whose dugout vessels Columbus's crews encountered. The "-ing" simply turns the boat into the doing. So the word carries a genuine trans-Atlantic journey inside it: an Indigenous Caribbean term, ferried into Europe by colonial contact, then floated back out into the wider world.
- ancient ride
- Dugout canoes date back over 8,000 years
- olympic sport
- Canoe racing debuted at the 1936 Berlin Games
- silent travel
- Moves without engines, scaring fewer fish and feds
- global word
- Comes from Carib 'kana:wa' via Spanish sailors
- distance feat
- Crossings of entire oceans have been completed by paddle
yukon quest 1000 — 1,000-mile canoe race from whitehorse to dawson city, yukon, established 1987
zambezi river expedition — canoeing the zambezi from source through victoria falls to mozambique delta