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The closest a human gets to wearing a boat like pants while wrestling rivers.
means The sport or activity of paddling a kayak — a small, narrow boat propelled with a double-bladed paddle — across water, whether calm lakes or churning rapids.
from From 'kayak,' which comes from the Greenlandic Inuit word 'qajaq,' the sealskin-and-driftwood hunting boat of Arctic peoples — a craft you climbed into rather than onto. The word reached English in the late 1700s by way of Danish, carried back by explorers; the '-ing' is simply English turning the boat into a thing you do.
- inuit origin
- Invented 4,000 years ago for arctic seal hunting
- name meaning
- Kayak means hunter's boat in Inuktitut
- eskimo roll
- Flipping upright underwater without exiting the boat
- speed feat
- Paddlers hit 30+ mph down waterfall drops
- sea distance
- Solo crossings span thousands of open ocean miles
source to sea 2020 — 1,200 km kayak journey from source of amazon to atlantic ocean
devizes to westminster race — 125-mile annual kayak race on english rivers since 1948
rio olympics slalom 2016 — olympic kayaking event with gates through whitewater in rio de janeiro