Sentence examples for one oar from inspiring English sources

Many of the competitors in the "sweep" events -- in which the rower has two hands on one oar, as opposed to rowing with two oars, which is called sculling -- train with a former Princeton University coach, Mike Teti.

Sweep rowing is done in pairs, fours or eights because it involves one oar per rower, extending out of alternative sides of the boat.

Collins graduated from Brown in 1997 and will row in the men's eight in Sydney -- an eight-man boat in which each rower has one oar.

THE SETUP -- The 550 rowers will compete in eight sculling events (two oars for each sculler) ranging from singles to quads and six sweep events (one oar per athlete) ranging from pairs to eights.

In the shells, four girls each row one oar, while a fifth girl, the coxswain, sits in the bow, wearing a headset with microphone and shouting encouragement and reminders.

Sometimes the boat is sculled by one oar over the stern.

In team boats, crews of four or eight row backward with two hands on one 12-foot oar, following the commands of the boat's forward-facing coxswain.

A woman with a baby in her lap, played the role of demanding cockswain as she put two men, one on each oar, through their paces.

On the water, pulling on his oar.

One spectrum in OAR has been tentatively assigned to P2+, while the other spectrum is assigned to the unknown X, a species with a low-spin state.

Imagine keeping one on your bike pedal to measure pedaling cadence, moving it to your kayaking oar for measuring paddling cadence, and finally sticking it on your shoe for measuring a run, for example.