The recreational activity of traveling in or operating motorboats, especially for leisure or sport.
From autoboat + -ing (forming gerunds and present participles). This term combines the auto- prefix referring to self-propulsion with boating, emerging as a leisure activity in the early-to-mid 20th century.
Autoboating became a status symbol in the early 1900s—owning a motorboat meant you had money, leisure time, and access to waterways, and it opened up a whole new world of vacation destinations.
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