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row 1

 (rō)
n.
1. A series of objects placed next to each other, usually in a straight line.
2. A succession without a break or gap in time: won the title for three years in a row.
3. A line of adjacent seats, as in a theater, auditorium, or classroom.
4. A continuous line of buildings along a street.
tr.v. rowed, row·ing, rows
To place in a row.
Idiom:
a tough row to hoe Informal
A difficult situation to endure.

[Middle English, from Old English rāw.]

row 2

 (rō)
v. rowed, row·ing, rows
v.intr. Nautical
To use an oar or pair of oars in propelling a boat, typically by facing the stern and pulling the oar handle toward oneself, using an oarlock as a fulcrum to push the blade backward through the water repeatedly.
v.tr.
1. Nautical
a. To propel (a boat) with oars.
b. To carry in or on a boat propelled by oars.
c. To use (a specified number of oars or people deploying them).
2. To propel or convey in a manner resembling rowing of a boat.
3. Sports
a. To pull (an oar) as part of a racing crew.
b. To race against by rowing.
n. Nautical
1.
a. The act or an instance of rowing.
b. A shift at the oars of a boat.
2. A trip or an excursion in a rowboat.

[Middle English rowen, from Old English rōwan; see erə- in Indo-European roots.]

row′er n.

row 3

 (rou)
n.
1. A noisy or quarrel or disturbance.
2. A loud noise.
intr.v. rowed, row·ing, rows
To take part in a noisy quarrel or disturbance.

[Origin unknown.]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.rowing - the act of rowing as a sportrowing - the act of rowing as a sport  
feathering, feather - turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
crab - a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply; "he caught a crab and lost the race"
sculling - rowing by a single oarsman in a racing shell
athletics, sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
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Translations
veslování
roning
soutaminen
veslanje
ボートを漕ぐこと
배 젓기
rodd
การพายเรือ
sự chèo thuyền

rowing

[ˈrəʊɪŋ]
A. Nremo m
B. CPD rowing boat N (Brit) → barca f de remos, bote m de remos
rowing club Nclub m de remo
rowing machine Nmáquina f de remo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

rowing

[ˈrəʊɪŋ]
naviron m
My hobby is rowing → Je fais de l'aviron.
modif [assocation, club, team] → d'avironrowing boat [ˈrəʊɪŋbəʊt] n (British)canot m, canot m à ramesrowing machine [ˈrəʊɪŋməʃiːn] nrameur m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

rowing

:
rowing boat
n (Brit) → Ruderboot nt
rowing club
nRuderklub or -verein m
rowing machine
nRudergerät nt

rowing

1
nRudern nt

rowing

2
n (esp Brit: = quarrelling) → Streiterei f, → Streitereien pl
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

rowing

[ˈrəʊɪŋ] nremare m (Sport) → canottaggio
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

rowing

تـَجْدِيف veslování roning Rudern κωπηλασία remo soutaminen aviron veslanje canottaggio ボートを漕ぐこと 배 젓기 roeien roing wioślarstwo remo гребля rodd การพายเรือ kürek sporu sự chèo thuyền 划船
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References in classic literature ?
We got to chatting about our rowing experiences this morning, and to recounting stories of our first efforts in the art of oarsmanship.
Certain gentlemen among the passengers got some of the smaller boats lowered, and amused themselves by rowing about, and swimming, when the sun at evening time was cool enough to let them divert themselves in that way.
Says--because a chap likes a healthy out-of-door life, and trains for rowing and running, and the rest of it, and don't see his way to stewing over his books-- therefore he's safe to commit all the crimes in the calendar, murder included.
But they were too wise to attempt it, contenting themselves with rowing lustily to windward along the starboard side of a big ship, the Lancashire Queen.
By this time we had got so far out of the run of the current that we kept steerage way even at our necessarily gentle rate of rowing, and I could keep her steady for the goal.
As they were rowing over the lake, the prince who was in the boat with the youngest princess and the soldier said, 'I do not know why it is, but though I am rowing with all my might we do not get on so fast as usual, and I am quite tired: the boat seems very heavy today.' 'It is only the heat of the weather,' said the princess: 'I feel it very warm too.'
At these latter words the girl shivered again, and for a moment paused in her rowing, seeming to turn deadly faint.
A half mile out in the ocean, sir, in one of the lifeboats, rowing away for dear life.
Then all of a sudden it fell dead calm; there was not a breath of wind nor a ripple upon the water, so the men furled the sails and stowed them; then taking to their oars they whitened the water with the foam they raised in rowing. Meanwhile I look a large wheel of wax and cut it up small with my sword.
They glided rapidly along, Stephen rowing, helped by the backward-flowing tide, past the Tofton trees and houses; on between the silent sunny fields and pastures, which seemed filled with a natural joy that had no reproach for theirs.
At that, we looked out and saw the lass herself coming rowing to us in a boat.
"I was," he says, "always cricketing-- rebelling--fighting, rowing (from row, not boat-rowing, a different practice), and in all manner of mischiefs." Yet, wild though he was, of his headmaster he ever kept a kindly remembrance.