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A human who outsources dry clothes to a thin shell of plastic and hope.
means A person who paddles a narrow, enclosed boat using a double-bladed paddle, typically sitting with legs extended inside the hull.
from From 'kayak,' borrowed into English from Inuit 'qajaq' (or related Arctic/Eskimo-Aleut languages), the skin-and-bone boat built by Arctic peoples for hunting and travel on water. 'Kayaker' is simply the English agent-noun '-er' bolted onto that loanword once the sport spread far from its icy origins.
- origin
- Inuit design built for hunting, not gyms
- roll skill
- righting upside down without exiting boat
- gear tell
- spray skirt turns swimmer into sealed burrito
- rivalry
- canoeists silently judge their single-blade purity