"went boating" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is a simple past tense verb phrase that means to go out on a boat or engage in boating activities. Example: After a long week at work, we decided to go boating on the lake to relax and enjoy the beautiful weather.
During his stay, Jeremiah went boating for the first time.
"But some guy -- what he did was so stupid, he wouldn't tell us his name -- went boating on Lake Michigan and called 911.
The young investors earned $600 on their $5,000 that year, and the family rented a catamaran and went boating near Mystic, Conn.
Around the time that Low and Najib went boating with the PetroSaudi founders, the Malaysian central government took control of the wealth fund – which was soon renamed as 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and given a mandate to promote economic development in Malaysia.
One of the main satellites was the famous summer community at the Villa Diodati where, in 1816, Shelley, his mistress Mary, her step-sister Claire Clairmont, their new best friend Byron, and the really rather dull Dr John Polidori went boating during the day and spent the evenings playing the early 19th-century equivalent of parlour games.
After all, he notes, self-employment has its privileges: "I took the month of July off and went boating".
If you go boating in saltwater, be sure to thoroughly rinse your boat with freshwater after every outing in order to get rid of any salt residue.
And while threats to the environment tend to be ignorable (if only in the short run), this one is not, because millions of people go boating and the novelty of being hit by a fish wears off fast.
Afterwards, we'd cross the river and go boating past the 19th-century grottos and waterfalls of the Lac Inferieur in the Bois de Boulogne (boats a snip at £7 an hour).
When the four of them go boating on the lake, they sing a hymn to springtime out of sheer, childlike high spirits and good humour, to the tune of the Blue Danube.
"I like the fact that they have enough counselors for the kids; they really know how to work well with them," Ms. Wendell said, after she and her husband, John, watched the boys go boating with Ovi Ticka, a counselor.
