🇬🇧🇨🇳 rowboat - 划艇 : English Lesson

Meaning of "rowboat" ("划艇"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A rowboat is a small, simple boat that you move by using long sticks called oars. You sit inside the boat, hold an oar in each hand, and pull them through the water to make the boat go forward or backward. There is no motor; the boat only moves when someone rows it with their muscles.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

My cousin rowed the rowboat backward the whole time and called it “advanced driving.”

The rowboat ride was peaceful until a fish jumped in, looked around, and clearly regretted its life choices.

We tried to race another rowboat, but we lost to a floating leaf that wasn’t even trying.

Grandpa said the rowboat was unsinkable; the rowboat immediately proved him wrong by filling up like a bathtub.

I tried to row the rowboat in a straight line and accidentally did five perfect circles instead.

She pushed the rowboat off the dock, climbed into the rowboat, and took the wooden oars. The rowboat slid across the smooth lake as she pulled hard, the oars dipping and lifting. A dog barked on shore. When the wind tossed the rowboat, she steadied it, laughed, and rowed home in the small rowboat.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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