1. sailing - Noun
2. sailing - Adjective
3. sailing - Verb
of Sail
The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage.
The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation; as, globular sailing; oblique sailing.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWriting criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. John Updike
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it'' Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least. Chuck Palahniuk
It is good sailing with wind and tide. Dutch Proverb
When a ship is broken, the accident does not prevent others from sailing. Martinican Proverb
It is ill sailing against wind and tide. Dutch Proverb