Definition of Sailing

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Sailing

of Sail

The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage.

The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation; as, globular sailing; oblique sailing.

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Sailing Quotations

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Thomas Merton

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
Amelia Earhart

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
John Updike

They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.
Craig Ferguson

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
Arthur Ashe

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
Morgan Freeman

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.
Dennis Conner

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
Ella Maillart

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.
Fritz Sauckel

Sailing Translations

sailing in French is cingler
sailing in German is absegelnd, segelnd, segelnd
sailing in Italian is veleggiare

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