canyoning
World English Dictionary
canyoning (ˈkænjənɪŋ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| the sport of travelling down a river situated in a canyon by a variety of means including scrambling, floating, swimming, and abseiling | |
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| Main Entry: | canyoning |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | a sport in which one dresses in protective clothing and jumps into a fast mountain stream for traversing gullies, rapids, and falls on one's back |
| Usage: | sport |
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Canyoning
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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