1 [U] the sport or activity of travelling in a boat with sails:
to go sailing * a sailing club
2 [C] one of the regular times that a ship leaves a port:
There are six sailings a day from Dover to Ostend. * What time is the next sailing?
IDIOMS see CLEARadj., PLAINadj.
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