rafting

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑːftɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæftɪŋ/

Verb

rafting

1. present participle and gerund of raft

Noun

rafting (uncountable)

1. The sport of guiding a raft while descending a river, especially through rapids known as white water rafting.

Derived terms

• black-water rafting
• timber rafting
• whitewater rafting

 

Translations

sport

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漂流 (zh) (piāoliú), (literary) 泛舟 (zh) (fànzhōu)

• Finnish: koskenlasku kumilautalla
• French: rafting (fr) m, radelage m
• German: Rafting (de) n
• Hebrew: רפטינג (he) m
• Hungarian: rafting (hu)
• Japanese: ラフティング (ja) (rafutingu)
• Polish: rafting m, spływ rzeczny m
• Russian: ра́фтинг (ru) m (ráfting), спорти́вный сплав m (sportívnyj splav)
• Spanish: descenso de ríos
• Thai: ล่องแก่ง (lɔ̂ng-gɛ̀ng)
• Turkish: rafting (tr), sal yarışı (tr)
• Ukrainian: ра́фтинг m (ráftynh)

Anagrams

• farting, ingraft

French

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁaf.tiŋ/

• Audio

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Noun

rafting m (uncountable)

1. rafting

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rafting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraftin/ [ˈraf.t̪ĩn]
• Rhymes: -aftin

Noun

rafting m (uncountable)

1. rafting

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “rafting”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014