sculling

[ UK /skˈʌlɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. rowing by a single oarsman in a racing shell
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How To Use sculling In A Sentence

  • Such a fish! ten times as big as the biggest trout, and a hundred times as big as Tom, sculling up the stream past him, as easily as Tom had sculled down. The Water Babies
  • This vertical sculling drill is a brave way if you're injured.
  • Though stationary, they keep up a constant sculling or waving motion with their fins, which is exceedingly graceful, and expressive of their humble happiness; for unlike ours, the element in which they live is a stream which must be constantly resisted. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
  • They did not qualify, however, because the Scouts' canoes were not the sculling skiffs required by the rules.
  • Anne Homa won women's S1 single sculls and Anna Mahlamaki won women's novice sculls in her first race in a sculling boat despite clipping the bank a few times.
  • His sculling rhythm is terrific.
  • We went back to the tourist slope and I let her glide, cautioning her to hold both alulae open with her thumbs for more lift at slow speeds, while barely sculling with her fingers. The Past Through Tomorrow
  • Powerful sideway scullingmovements of the tail can propel it through water at considerable speed when necessary.
  • Each boat contains a crew of two and each crew rows an identical 7.1 metre boat that includes two sliding seats and the same sculling oars as used in standard rowing boats.
  • Rienks's international rowing career spanned five Olympic games and during that time he won medals in both sculling and sweep oar events.
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