Sentence examples for shoot rapids from inspiring English sources

There's a great appeal in reading about those who are prepared to live with native tribesmen or shoot rapids when we're not asked to do it ourselves.

He also had to shoot rapids in a kayak, something he had never tried before; float naked in a freezing stream; and not flinch when an enormous grizzly passed within inches of him.

It'll shoot rapid fire, but not very rapidly.

I shoot rapid fire RAW shots all the time, and having my motor drive be limited in the frequency and length of the sequence by the speed of the card is frustrating.

While shooting rapids, she capsized and hit her head.

Where the corps shot rapids in canoes, people now ride big kites attached to boards.

Sticking to the realm of watery metaphor, they were shooting rapids: riding the current even as they resisted it.

In a sense, that is true, for this is not some minor navigational challenge, like shooting rapids in an aircraft carrier.

Bear Grylls, the host, is an Eton-educated adventurer who shoots rapids, ice-climbs and parachutes, preferably landing in locations requiring him to eat grubs and drink urine and, at least once, liquid from elephant dung.

Sometimes, as in the opening gallery, you might almost be shooting rapids, so quickly do the elements of the Rajput vocabulary accrue from one Buddhist, Hindu or Jainist manuscript to the next".

Through my supervisor?s contacts, I got onto a 3-week rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, shooting rapids on a 4-meter rubber raft, sleeping rough in the wilderness.