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Discover LudwigThe phrase "floating the river" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to being in a boat or other flotation device and leisurely traveling down a body of water, such as a river or stream. For example, "We enjoyed a peaceful afternoon floating the river in a canoe".
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I grew up on the lake, floating the rivers, nothing but mountains and streams and wildlife and that sort of thing.
A few people also floated the river offerings they had made of bread plate-sized slices of banana tree trunks, decorated with candles and marigolds.
Though Mr. Sosa has floated the river some 500 times, he still prefers to let first-timers conjure their own solutions to the riddles of the San Juan — such as the meanings of the petroglyphs.
There are no roads into the area; visitors either hike in, ride in on horseback, or fly in by bush plane and float the river for all or a part of its 106 miles.
On the sun-sweetened morning of our last day, Montgomery and I opt to float the river with Gallon.
In the lower reaches of larger rivers, anglers in drift boats float the rivers searching for trout along the wooded shorelines.
Scenes from Kurosawa movies came to mind; so did Turner seascapes, Tennyson's Lady of Shalott floating down to Camelot, and Tolkien's dead Boromir floating down the river Anduin.
Her luggage was floating in the river.
He saw a number of bodies floating in the river.
More than thirty boats were floating in the river.
"We get them in canoes and floating down the river.
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