Fishing is one of the most popular hobbies.
Source: tatoeba (19336)
Fishing
//ˈfɪʃɪŋ//
Synonyms for "fishing" (55 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (27)
Related word relations
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More general
5 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
9 entriesat location
1 entriescauses
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
defined as
1 entriesderived
45 entriesShowing 16 of 45 words.
derived from
1 entriesform of
1 entrieshas prerequisite
10 entrieshas subevent
37 entriesShowing 16 of 37 words.
is a
15 entriesreceives action
2 entriesrelated to
58 entriesShowing 16 of 58 words.
used for
32 entriesShowing 16 of 32 words.
Translations
143 translations across 67 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- visvang noun (business of catching fish)
Albanian
1 entries- peshkim noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἁλιεία noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- ἁλιευτική noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Arabic
1 entries- صَيْد سَمَك noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Armenian
2 entries- ձկնորսություն noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- ձկնորսություն noun (business of catching fish)
Assamese
2 entries- মাছ ধৰা noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- মাছ মাৰা noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- balıqçılıq noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Basque
1 entries- arrantza noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Belarusian
1 entries- рыба́лка noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Bulgarian
1 entries- риболо́в noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Burmese
1 entries- ငါးဖမ်း noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Catalan
2 entries- pesca noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- pesca noun (business of catching fish)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 漁業 /渔业 noun (business of catching fish)
- 釣魚 /钓鱼 noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Chukchi
1 entries- ынныӈыттын noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Classical Nahuatl
3 entries- michahxiliztli noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- michmaliztli noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- tlahtlamaliztli noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Czech
2 entries- rybolov noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- rybolov noun (business of catching fish)
Danish
3 entries- fiskeri noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- fiskeri noun (business of catching fish)
- lystfiskeri noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Dutch
4 entries- hengelsport noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- sportvisserij noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- stek noun (place for catching fish)
- vissen noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Esperanto
2 entries- fiŝkaptado noun (business of catching fish)
- fiŝkapti noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Estonian
2 entries- kalapüük noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- kalastamine noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Finnish
4 entries- apaja noun (place for catching fish)
- kalapaikka noun (place for catching fish)
- kalastus noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- kalastus noun (business of catching fish)
French
2 entries- pêche noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- pêche noun (business of catching fish)
Friulian
2 entries- pescje noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- pescje noun (business of catching fish)
Galician
2 entries- pesca noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- pesca noun (business of catching fish)
Georgian
1 entries- თევზაობა noun (act or sport of catching fish)
German
2 entries- Fischen noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- Fischfang noun (business of catching fish)
Greek
1 entries- αλιεία noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Hebrew
1 entries- דַיִג noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Hindi
1 entries- मत्स्य पालन noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Hungarian
2 entries- halászat noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- halászat noun (business of catching fish)
Indonesian
3 entries- memancing noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- pemancingan noun (place for catching fish)
- penangkapan ikan noun (business of catching fish)
Ingrian
1 entries- kalanpyytö noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Irish
1 entries- iascaireacht noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Italian
1 entries- pesca noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Japanese
4 entries- 漁 noun (business of catching fish)
- 漁場 noun (place for catching fish)
- 漁業 noun (business of catching fish)
- 釣り noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Kapampangan
1 entries- mamaduas noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Khmer
2 entries- ការនេសាទត្រី noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- ការស្ទូចត្រី noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Korean
2 entries- 낚시 noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- 어업 noun (business of catching fish)
Lao
1 entries- ການຫາປາ noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Latvian
4 entries- zveja noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- zvejas vieta noun (place for catching fish)
- zvejasvieta noun (place for catching fish)
- zvejniecība noun (business of catching fish)
Lithuanian
2 entries- žvejyba noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- žūklė noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Macedonian
4 entries- ри́болов noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- ри́болов noun (business of catching fish)
- риба́рство noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- риба́рство noun (business of catching fish)
Malayalam
3 entries- മത്സ്യബന്ധനം noun (business of catching fish)
- മീൻപിടിത്തം noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- മീൻപിടിത്തം noun (business of catching fish)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- masîgirî noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Norwegian
2 entries- fisking noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- fisking noun (business of catching fish)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- fiske noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- fiske noun (business of catching fish)
- fiskeri noun (business of catching fish)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- fiske noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- fiske noun (business of catching fish)
- fiskeri noun (business of catching fish)
Old English
1 entries- fiscoþ noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Persian
1 entries- ماهیگیری noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Polish
3 entries- rybactwo noun (business of catching fish)
- rybołówstwo noun (business of catching fish)
- wędkarstwo noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Portuguese
3 entries- pesca noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- pesca noun (business of catching fish)
- pescaria noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Romanian
3 entries- pescuire noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- pescuire noun (business of catching fish)
- pescărie noun (business of catching fish)
Russian
4 entries- ры́бная ло́вля noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- ры́бная ло́вля noun (business of catching fish)
- рыба́лка noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- рыболо́вство noun (business of catching fish)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ribárstvo noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- rȉbolōv noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- ри̏боло̄в noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- риба́рство noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Slovak
1 entries- rybolov noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Slovene
1 entries- ribolov noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Spanish
4 entries- pesca noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- pesca noun (business of catching fish)
- pesquera noun (place for catching fish)
- pesquería noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Swedish
4 entries- fiskande noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- fiskande noun (business of catching fish)
- fiske noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- fiske noun (business of catching fish)
Tajik
1 entries- моҳигирӣ noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Tatar
1 entries- балык тоту noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Thai
1 entries- ประมง noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Turkish
2 entries- balık tutma noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- balıkçılık noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Ukrainian
4 entries- риба́лка noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- риба́льство noun (act or sport of catching fish)
- риба́льство noun (business of catching fish)
- риболо́вля noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Vietnamese
1 entries- câu cá noun (act or sport of catching fish)
White Hmong
1 entries- hnuv ntses noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- goolak-keni noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Yonaguni
1 entries- 魚っぱし noun (act or sport of catching fish)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Fishing just isn't my line.
Source: tatoeba (19337)
I prefer staying home to going fishing.
Source: tatoeba (19338)
My hobbies are fishing and watching television.
Source: tatoeba (19339)
Showing 4 of 15 available sentences.
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