- [uncountable] the sport or activity of travelling in a boat with sails
- to go sailing
- a sailing club
- the college rowing and sailing teams
- They are going on a 10-day sailing trip.
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- school
- regatta
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- [countable] one of the regular times that a ship leaves a port
- There are six sailings a day.
- What time is the next sailing?
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by watera2- Sailings were suspended in the high winds.
- The company operates regular sailings between Hull and Zeebrugge.
- the 4 p.m. sailing from Dover to Calais
Idioms
See sailing in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe plain sailing
(North American English be clear/smooth sailing)
- to be simple and free from trouble
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