punting

punting
n [U]
the activity of going along a river in a punt (= a long boat with a flat bottom that is moved by pushing against the bottom of the river with a long pole). People go punting for pleasure rather than sport, and punting is especially popular in the British university towns of Oxford and Cambridge.

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