Definition of "kayak" []

• An Inuit or Eskimo boat consisting of a light wooden frame covered with watertight skins except for a single or double opening in the center, and propelled by a double-bladed paddle. (noun)
• A lightweight canoe that is similar in design. (noun)
• To go, travel, or race in a kayak. (verb-intransitive)
• To go or travel on (a body of water) by kayak: kayaked rapids of the Colorado River. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Inuit, a language of the Eskimo-Aleut family that, via Danish, gave Global English the word kayak, now has fewer than fifty thousand speakers."
• "No – a sea kayak is a closed one person boat designed specifically for the ocean."
• "My sea kayak is all I need, has minimal storage and loops for a fishing pole – picture me as old man of the sea."