kayaking
カヤック
解説 Definition
kayaking は、小型の細長いボートであるカヤックに乗って水上を進む活動やスポーツを指します。川、湖、海などで行われ、パドルを使って自分でこいで進みます。
Kayaking is the recreational activity or sport of traveling across water in a kayak, usually by using a double-bladed paddle. It may take place on lakes, rivers, or the sea and can range from calm sightseeing to demanding white-water activity.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
名詞・動詞 kayak に -ing をそのまま加えた形で、k を重ねたり e を落としたりせず、語末は /ɪŋ/ と発音します。go kayaking「カヤックをしに行く」が代表的な組み合わせです。細長い艇に座り、両端に水かきのあるパドルで湖・川・海を進む活動を思い浮かべ、canoeing と艇やパドルの違いも意識しましょう。
Kayaking is formed by adding -ing directly to kayak, with no doubled letter or dropped final letter; the ending is pronounced /ɪŋ/. Picture yourself seated low in a narrow kayak and using a double-bladed paddle to move across a lake, river, or coastal water. The most useful phrase is go kayaking, as in “We went kayaking on the lake.” Connect it with kayaker, the person doing the activity. To distinguish it from canoeing, remember that a typical recreational kayak has a more enclosed seating position and is paddled with blades at both ends.
例文
We went kayaking on the lake last weekend.
私たちは先週末、湖でカヤックをした。
Kayaking can be relaxing on calm water.
穏やかな水面でのカヤックはリラックスできることがある。
She learned the basic safety rules before kayaking in the river.
彼女は川でカヤックをする前に、基本的な安全ルールを学んだ。
kayaking の類義語・関連語
kayaking の語源・成り立ち Etymology
kayaking は kayak に動作名詞語尾 -ing が付いた語で、kayak はグリーンランド語 qayaq「一人乗りの狩猟用ボート」に由来します。もともと氷海で素早く進む細舟の名だったため、「カヤックでこぐこと・その競技」という意味になり、関連語に kayak, kayaker があります。
Kayaking consists of kayak plus the activity-forming suffix -ing. Kayak entered English through Danish and related European forms derived from Greenlandic qajaq, the name of a light, narrow boat traditionally used by Inuit hunters in Arctic waters. English retained the name for this type of small paddled craft. From the noun came the verb kayak, and kayaking then developed as the regular -ing form for the act, sport, or recreational activity of traveling in one.
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