vbl. sb. [f. prec. + -ING1.] The practice of paddling a canoe. Also attrib.
1870. Daily News, 10 Oct., 2/1. When it was not the fashion to regard … the Nile as a punting and canoeing stream. Ibid. (1871), 27 Sept., 2/1. Recognised canoeing … dates from the publication of the cruise of the Rob Roy in 1865. Since then a literature of canoeing has sprung up.
