fishing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃɪŋ
• Homophone: phishing

Etymology 1

From Middle English fischynge, equivalent to fish +‎ -ing.

Noun

fishing (countable and uncountable, plural fishings)

Stilt fishermen in Sri Lanka.

1. (uncountable) The act of catching fish.

   We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

     Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

2. (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
4. (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.

   This is good news for the fishing industry.

5. (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
   • 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:

     the rent of the fishings

   • 1917, The Scots Law Times, volume 2, page 190:

     Generally speaking, the only fishings which appear separately in Valuation Rolls as having a lettable value in their actual state from year to year are salmon-fishings.

Synonyms

• (act): piscatology, piscation, piscicide (pejorative), piscicapture, the gentle craft
• (business): fishery, the fish industry, the seafood industry
• (sport): sportfishing
• (place): See fishery

Derived terms

• antifishing
• bottom-fishing
• compliment fishing
• cormorant fishing
• cyanide fishing
• drift fishing
• electrofishing
• fishing eagle
• fishing frog
• fishingly
• fishing net
• fishing owl
• fishing room
• fishing-smack
• fishing-tube
• fishing worm
• fly fishing
• fly-fishing
• gone fishing
• gorge fishing
• ice fishing
• Jonah fishing
• line fishing
• nonfishing
• rodfishing
• shellfishing
• skishing
• spearfishing

Translations

act or sport of catching fish

• Albanian: peshkim (sq) m
• Arabic: صَيْد سَمَك m (ṣayd samak)
• Armenian: ձկնորսություն (hy) (jknorsutʻyun)
• Assamese: মাছ ধৰা (mas dhora), মাছ মাৰা (mas mara)
• Azerbaijani: balıqçılıq (az)
• Basque: arrantza
• Belarusian: рыба́лка f (rybálka)
• Bulgarian: риболо́в (bg) m (ribolóv)
• Burmese: ငါးဖမ်း (nga:hpam:)
• Catalan: pesca (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 釣魚 / 钓鱼 (zh) (diàoyú)

• Chukchi: ынныӈыттын (ynnyṇyttyn)
• Classical Nahuatl: michmaliztli, michahxiliztli, tlahtlamaliztli
• Czech: rybolov m
• Danish: fiskeri (da) n, lystfiskeri (da) n
• Dutch: vissen (nl) n, sportvisserij (nl) f, hengelsport (nl)
• Esperanto: fiŝkapti
• Estonian: kalapüük, kalastamine
• Finnish: kalastus (fi), kalastusurheilu, urheilukalastus
• French: pêche (fr) f
• Friulian: pescje f
• Galician: pesca (gl) f
• Georgian: თევზაობა (tevzaoba)
• German: Fischen (de) n
• Greek: αλιεία (el) f (alieía)
• Hebrew: דַיִג (he)
• Hindi: मत्स्य पालन m (matsya pālan)
• Hungarian: halászat (hu) sg
• Indonesian: memancing (id)
• Ingrian: kalanpyytö
• Irish: iascaireacht f
• Italian: pesca (it) f
• Japanese: 釣り (ja) (tsuri)
• Kapampangan: mamaduas
• Khmer: ការស្ទូចត្រី (kaa stuuc trəy), ការនេសាទត្រី (kaa neisaat trəy)
• Korean: 낚시 (ko) (naksi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: masîgirî (ku) f

• Lao: ການຫາປາ (lo) (kān hā pā)
• Latvian: zveja f
• Lithuanian: žūklė f, žvejyba f
• Macedonian: риба́рство n (ribárstvo), ри́болов m (ríbolov)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: മീൻപിടിത്തം (mīṉpiṭittaṁ)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: fisking m or f

  Bokmål: fiske (no) n

  Nynorsk: fiske n

• Old English: fiscoþ m
• Persian: ماهیگیری (fa) (mâhigiri)
• Polish: wędkarstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: pescaria (pt) f, pesca (pt)
• Romanian: pescuire (ro)
• Russian: рыба́лка (ru) f (rybálka), ры́бная ло́вля f (rýbnaja lóvlja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ри̏боло̄в m, риба́рство n

  Roman: rȉbolōv (sh) m, ribárstvo (sh) n

• Slovak: rybolov (sk) m
• Slovene: ribolov m
• Spanish: pesca (es) f, pesquería f
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: fiske (sv) n, fiskande (sv) n
• Tajik: моҳигирӣ (tg) (mohigiri)
• Tatar: балык тоту (balıq totu)
• Thai: ประมง (th) (bprà-mong)
• Turkish: balıkçılık (tr), balık tutma
• Ukrainian: риба́лка f (rybálka), риболо́вля f (rybolóvlja), риба́льство n (rybálʹstvo)
• Vietnamese: câu cá (vi)
• White Hmong: hnuv ntses
• Woiwurrung: goolak-keni
• Yonaguni: 魚っぱし (iyuppashi)

business of catching fish

• Afrikaans: visvang sg
• Armenian: ձկնորսություն (hy) (jknorsutʻyun)
• Catalan: pesca (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漁業 / 渔业 (zh) (yúyè)

• Czech: rybolov m
• Danish: fiskeri (da) n
• Dutch: visserij (nl) f
• Esperanto: fiŝkaptado
• Finnish: kalastus (fi), kalatalous (fi)
• French: pêche (fr) f
• Friulian: pescje f
• Galician: pesca (gl) f
• German: Fischfang (de) m
• Hungarian: halászat (hu)
• Indonesian: penangkapan ikan
• Japanese: 漁 (ja) (ryō), 漁業 (ja) (ぎょぎょう, gyogyō)
• Latvian: zvejniecība f
• Macedonian: риба́рство n (ribárstvo), ри́болов m (ríbolov)
• Malayalam: മത്സ്യബന്ധനം (ml) (matsyabandhanaṁ), മീൻപിടിത്തം (mīṉpiṭittaṁ)
• Norwegian: fisking m or f

  Bokmål: fiske (no) n, fiskeri (no) n

  Nynorsk: fiske n, fiskeri n

• Polish: rybołówstwo (pl) m, rybactwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: pesca (pt) f
• Romanian: pescuire (ro), pescărie (ro) f
• Russian: рыболо́вство (ru) n (rybolóvstvo), ры́бная ло́вля f (rýbnaja lóvlja)
• Spanish: pesca (es) f, pesquería f
• Swedish: fiske (sv) n, fiskande (sv) n
• Ukrainian: риба́льство n (rybálʹstvo)

place for catching fish

• Dutch: stek (nl)
• Finnish: kalapaikka (fi), apaja (fi), kalavedet, kalastusalue (fi)
• Indonesian: pemancingan (id)
• Japanese: 釣り場 (つりば, tsuriba) (sports), 漁場 (ja) (りょうば, ryōba) (business)
• Latvian: zvejas vieta f, zvejasvieta f
• Spanish: pesquería f, pesquera f
• Swedish: fiskevatten (sv) n

See also

• (adj): See fishing
• (adv): halieutically
• (science): halieutics, piscatology
• (writing on fishing): halieutics, piscatory

See also

• piscatorious, piscatory, piscatorial, piscatorical, piscatorian; piscatorially

Etymology 2

From fish +‎ -ing.

Verb

fishing

1. present participle and gerund of fish

Derived terms

• bottom fishing
• fishing boat
• fishing cat
• fishing expedition
• fishing ground
• fishing hook
• fishing line
• fishing pole
• fishing rod
• fishing space
• fishing vessel
• magnet fishing
• phishing
• sportfishing
• sportsfishing