a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by Eskimos
<noun.artifact> [ verb ]
travel in a small canoe
<verb.motion> we kayaked down the river
Kayak \Kay"ak\, n. (Naut.) A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other Arctic tribes.
But it is thanks to his talent for solitariness and to his monomaniacal determination to paddle between this island and that in a collapsible kayak that we owe many of the bonuses of this remarkable adventure. A kayak, yes.
But it is thanks to his talent for solitariness and to his monomaniacal determination to paddle between this island and that in a collapsible kayak that we owe many of the bonuses of this remarkable adventure. A kayak, yes.
He and fellow driver Steven Spahr hoist half a dozen bicycles and a kayak on top.
Jim Snyder, an Albright, W.Va., author, predicted in a 1987 book that kayak technology and skill levels would evolve to the point that making it over Niagara Falls would be possible.
The film shows a man in a kayak successfully negotiating the rapids of the Niagara River just before the falls.
Then I took a kayak out to sea.
The main Bush flotilla included seven boats, ranging from a kayak to a jet-powered sheriff's patrol boat.
Accompanying him were two large canvas sacks - the separate halves of the sea kayak he assembled wherever the whim took him.
Last month, a man who went over the falls in a kayak apparently died.