Definition of "sailing" []

• The skill required to operate and navigate a vessel; navigation. (noun)
• The sport of operating or riding in a sailboat. (noun)
• Departure or time of departure from a port. (noun)

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• "A British cruiser chased us fruitlessly for two days off Sierra Leone, and enabled me not only to test the sailing qualities, but to get the _sailing trim_ of the "Estrella," in perfection."
• "WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) Team New Zealand says it will compete in sailing's 2011 Volvo Ocean Race and expects former America's Cup-holder Alinghi to also take part."
• "Ulysses was nine days in sailing from Ismarus, the city of the Ciconians, to the country of the Lotus-eaters — a period of time which to-day would breed anxiety in the hearts of the underwriters should it be occupied by the slowest tramp steamer in traversing the Mediterranean and Black seas from Gibraltar to Sebastopol."