Definition of Sailing

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

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

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

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

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

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.
Bo Derek

The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.
William Falconer

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
William Falconer

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Van Wyck Brooks

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

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

I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.
Hugh Dancy

I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.
Connie Nielsen

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.
Michelle Shocked

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
George William Curtis

Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.
Kirsty Gallacher

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.
Christopher Atkins

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

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
Fritz Sauckel

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.
Henry Walter Bates

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
Lawrence Hargrave

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.
Dennis Conner

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.
Sterling Hayden

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.
Martin Ryle

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.
Dave Anderson

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.
Edward Heath

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Sailing Translations

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

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