whitewater rafting
See also: white-water rafting and white water rafting
English
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- Traveling by raft through a section of a river which is churning with rapids, as for sport or adventurism.
- 1987 February 1, Lawrence Van Gelder, “Travel Advisory”, in New York Times, retrieved 9 May 2011:
- Scheduled, too, during the tour . . . is a visit to Big Bend Country, where jagged canyons cutting among towering limestone cliffs offer whitewater rafting on the Rio Grande.
- 2007, Sam Riches, "Family, friends mourn woman killed in rafting accident," adelaidenow.com (Australia), 15 Oct. (retrieved 9 May 2011):
- Karleigh had been on a six-week African adventure holiday when she went whitewater rafting on the treacherous Zambesi River rapids.
- 2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Apart from ice hockey and football, Lavrov is said to be happiest going white water rafting and fishing with friends in Siberia.
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edittraveling by raft
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References
edit- “whitewater rafting”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.