canoe
(kənuː )
Word forms: canoes
countable noun B1+
A canoe is a small, narrow boat that you move through the water using a stick with a wide end called a paddle.
There is a riverside campsite and canoe hire too.
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Idioms:
paddle your own canoe
to control what you want to do without anyone else's help or influence
As far as the rest of Europe is concerned we've just got to paddle our own canoe.
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Collocations:
canoe race canoe ride canoe trip dugout canoe
The last two weekends have the big-hitting events — the canoe race on the 10th, snow sculptures on the 9th and 10th, evening parades on the 9th and 16th.
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Like many of the races, the canoe race divides itself into two age groups.
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Some of the events include a regional talent night, lumberjack competition, and canoe race.
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There are many local events, including a canoe race, which was first introduced in 1997 and has been a great success ever since.
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It features a grand parade and street fair as well as canoe races, traditional games, singing, dancing, feasting, and fireworks.
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But the big heart-pumper will be the wild two-day canoe ride down the centre of the gorge, with a night spent camping under the stars.
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Don't panic - a short ramble from the airfield, then a 15-minute canoe ride and you're enveloped in jungle luxury.
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The two take a helicopter to a lake, for a canoe ride and a picnic.
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It includes canoe rides and hikes in the forest.
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Visitors can experience this natural spectacle from a cruise, a self-guided canoe trip or by helicopter, with prices from 13pp for canoeing.
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Hidden emotions surface when a group from the radio station take a canoe trip into the wilds.
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He spends pages on a horrific canoe trip that ends with him clinging to the upturned boat as night descends.
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I also took a torchlit canoe trip.
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Then we're off on the canoe trip.
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Activities on offer include day and night game drives, walks, mokoro (dugout canoe) rides and elephant-back safaris.
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The only way in is by dugout canoe.
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Then you take a dugout canoe and dive down the river's throat, deep into the lungs of the earth.
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His home was now this village, so remote that it could be reached only by dugout canoe.
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Translations:
Chinese: 独木舟
Japanese: カヌー