canoe
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All tickets available for Oklahoma City’s softball and canoe slalom events were sold through for both drops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
He runs an industrial canoe business that he started with high school friends who also grew up in Hawaii.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
After working with a 17-foot canoe as a centerpiece for the Huntington exhibition, Saar told Curate LA that she felt compelled to return to small-scale pieces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Hearn competed three times in the Olympics in the slalom canoe category, and won two world championships for the sport.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
I had gear in the canoe for a week and I was trying to catch a muskie so I could let it go.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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During past El Niño seasons, residents have been known to swap their cars for canoes and paddleboards to get around the peninsula after storms and high tides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
On summer weekends, thousands show up in Guerneville with kayaks, canoes, inner tubes — just about anything that will float, preferably with a cooler attached.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Then there are the boats or canoes themselves - generally old, weak, rickety wooden vessels that have often been used for years without upgrades or major repairs.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Particularly marvelous are the voyages of the Polynesians who crossed the immense Pacific a thousand years ago in double-hulled canoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
On March 14, four days after the two canoes were destroyed, the group woke up to more heavy rain.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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Garwood, who has canoed the length of the Mississippi River solo, an odyssey that lasted 84 days, has a deep reverence for his home ground, and the winter that is part of a Minnesotan’s identity.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
He also was friendly with the Suquamish people who regularly canoed across the lake as they paddled from Puget Sound to Lake Washington.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
The conservationist Aldo Leopold, who canoed through the delta in 1922, described it as “a hundred green lagoons” and said he paddled through waters “of a deep emerald hue.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
One of Douglas Bruce’s favorite memories of his son was when he was about 10, and they canoed the Boundary Waters in northeast Minnesota, near the Canadian border.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2022
More than a century later the French explorer La Salle canoed down the Mississippi.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Hearn, who competed in three Olympic Summer Games in canoeing, told US media he visited the refurbished pool after a long bike ride and noticed a piece of partially detached liner.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
On a recent morning, Britt Eastland was inspecting a trail at his family’s summer camp, anticipating another season of fishing, camping and canoeing just six weeks away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
Frank’s Paddlesport Livery is the first recreational kayaking, canoeing, and stand-up paddleboard operator to open downtown, thanks to the cleanup effort.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026
Those who have joined the group legal claim all either live or work alongside the rivers or use them regularly for leisure activities like swimming and canoeing.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
Not counting the armed man at the Shell station, Zeitoun had seen almost no danger in all the time he had been canoeing around the city.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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