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Canoeing & kayaking
Terms relating to the recreational activity of using a small skinny boat that is propelled by oars or paddles.
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Safety helmets
Sports; Canoeing & kayaking
A course set up for canoes and kayaks, over a winding course that is filled with obstacles. Competitors must try to successfully pass through many gates, possibly 18 or 19. This is very comparable to ...
Safety personnel
Sports; Canoeing & kayaking
A cover that fastens around the cockpit area and seals around the canoeist to keep water from getting into the kayak. Mostly used in slalom or whitewater events.
Sculling
Sports; Canoeing & kayaking
This is a straight-ahead canoe or kayak race on flat open water.
Spray skirt
Sports; Canoeing & kayaking
A canoeist who kneels or sits in the back position of a canoe or kayak.
Sprint
Sports; Canoeing & kayaking
This is a technique to get the canoe back in the position the canoeist wants to be in by doing an Eskimo roll. The canoeist is leaning back when they are using this technique.
Stern
Sports; Canoeing & kayaking
A stroke that turns a canoe in the direction opposite the side the paddle was put in the water. Again, this manoeuvre is executed by the sternsman.
Sternsman
Sports; Canoeing & kayaking
This is when a canoeist puts their paddle out into the water and then leans on it and this makes the canoe turn sharply.
