Synonyms for fishing
ˈfɪʃ ɪŋfish·ing

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. fishingnoun

   Synonyms:
   fishery, sportfishing

2. fishingnoun

   Of, or pertaining to fishing.

   a good day's fishing

   Synonyms:
   sportfishing, fishery

3. fishingnoun

   The business of catching fish in large quantities for sale.

   the fishing industry

   Synonyms:
   fishery, sportfishing

4. fishingnoun

   A place for catching fish.

   Synonyms:
   sportfishing, fishery

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.6 / 9 votes

1. fishing, sportfishingnoun

   the act of someone who fishes as a diversion

   Synonyms:
   sportfishing

2. fishingnoun

   the occupation of catching fish for a living

   Synonyms:
   sportfishing

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1. • Commercial Enterprise

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1. fishingnoun

   Synonyms:
   angling, trawling, trolling, whiffing, spillet fishing, bultow fishing

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1. List of paraphrases for "fishing":

   fisheries, fishery, fish, pesca, fishing, angling, fiske, catch, diaoyu, harvesting, fished, pêche, pesquera, hunting, visserij, fishermen, peach, angler, harvest, fishers

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1. Thelma Holloway:

   She enjoys fishing. She goes fishing every year, but it's not quite time, maybe sometime in June she'll get around to going.

2. Animesh Roul:

   They are still focusing too much on the existing militant networks and have failed to realize that the IS or AQIS (Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent) monsters are fishing in the troubled waters and succeeding to a large extent by enticing the youths or grassroots extremists.

3. Bob Richards:

   It's not unlike fishing vessels in international waters, they don't own the water ... but they have a right to put nets in the water and put the fish on the decks and once the fish are there, they own the fish.

4. Edward Weidenfeld:

   I do like the idea of remaining relevant, active, having a passion. The idea of sitting by a lake in northern Wisconsin and fishing all day doesn't hold much appeal to me.

5. James Sulikowski:

   Makos are a very hot topic and high priority species now, because the population is on the decline. There ... is a petition to see if makos should be listed as a threatened or endangered species in U.S. waters, our work is helping understand and mitigate interactions with pelagic longline fishing gear.