boat ride
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1.3
- noun
- /boʊt raɪd/
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paseo en barco
- On a boat ride, Brom and Katrina had a serious talk about leaving Sleepy Hollow.
- take a boat ride
So guys, we are on our penultimate taxi boat ride and back into Venice.
- So guys, we are on our penultimate taxi boat ride and back into Venice.
- Is it true that you guys went on like a sunset boat ride in Italy with George?
- The action this looks now this is so crazy man, even the just the boat ride here, it's just mind blowing.
- It was and we're all living in this remote hotel in the Amazon area approve about two hours boat ride from Iquitos.
- They have a little reptile zoo and then they have the fan boat rides and they're a few mythical beasts on the staff there.
Examples
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The cost is included with the price of the ferry or boat ride over to the island.
Blog text (17) -
We enjoyed a peaceful boat ride on the lake during sunset.
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This weekend, I went on a boat ride.
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We have to take a big boat ride across the sea to get there.
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Four or five American boys and girls had just returned from a boat ride.
Fiction book (1992) -
Let's go for a boat ride.
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I visited the zoo, I went for a boat ride, and I ate lunch with a friend.
Fiction book (1991) -
It's approximately a twenty-minute boat ride from the jetty.
Fiction book (1993) -
A twilight boat ride around the harbor, sponsored by their two Catholic colleges, spring 1959.
Fiction book (1997) -
Taking a boat ride around the bay was the highlight of our vacation.
Synonyms
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1.0
A journey in a car, bus, or train
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1.4
A trip by boat for pleasure on the sea
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1.0
Going out on a boat for pleasure
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4.5
Sailing or cruising in a yacht for pleasure
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3.0
A journey on a boat for fun and exploring new places
An activity of moving a boat on water using a large cloth and wind, often for fun or sport
Traveling in a boat with a motor for fun or transport
A trip in a large blimp that carries people to look at the land below
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a trip taken on a boat' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'boat' (a small craft) with 'ride' (a trip), so knowing both constituents allows a learner to infer the MWE meaning. This kind of modifier+noun compounding (vehicle + ride) is common cross-linguistically and follows a regular compositional pattern accessible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Boat ride comes from the simple picture of a boat giving you a ride, like a short, fun trip where you sit in a boat and enjoy the view. So boat ride means 'a short trip on a boat' taken for pleasure or sightseeing.