Definitions

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  • noun The act of playing golf.

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  • verb Present participle of golf.

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  • noun playing golf

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Examples

  • That means African-Americans included in golfing establishments reserved for only whites.

    Think Progress » New basketball league open to whites only, to get away from the ‘street-ball’ played by ‘people of color.’ 2010

  • Guess golfing is the reason he missed 40% of the votes in the Senate.

    Core constituency laments Clinton's exit 2008

  • I wonder if people actually want to picnic or walk on or around a golf course, particularly if golfing is going on.

    McIntire Park Open to Pedestrians at cvillenews.com 2002

  • Two clutch birdie putts on the 18th hole of regulation that will find their place in golfing lore weren't even enough to settle one of the greatest two-man displays in championship history.

    Woods, May display amazing putting savvy 2000

  • Myrtle Beach is often called the golfing capital of the world, and it was the intracoastal island golfing community of Barefoot Resort, where the Swartzes live, that sustained much of the damage.

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  • Myrtle Beach is often called the golfing capital of the world, and it was the intracoastal island golfing community of Barefoot Resort, where the Swartzes live, that sustained much of the damage.

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  • "Why Dubai?" said Tiger Woods when asked why he had chosen to build his first golf course design in the Emirates, thousands of miles from his home in Florida and a world away from the Old Course at St Andrews, the links lay‑out designed and built by nature he has always described as his golfing lodestar.

    Tiger Woods's Dubai dream evaporates in the desert Lawrence Donegan 2010

  • FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Golfing great Tiger Woods -- can you imagine being called a golfing great and you're only in your 20s?

    CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2002 2002

  • Sometimes I was apt to be critical, perhaps a little too critical, of the young lady who might be described as the golfing girl-the young lady who, after a brilliant round of golf, played equally as well a game or two of bridge in the evening and danced with grace at the fashionable ball.

    Chemistry in War Time 1932

  • As an interesting feature of what we might call golfing physiology, I seriously suggest that players of these habits and temperament, when they begin to work like a steam-engine in the bunker, do not see the ball at all for the last few strokes.

    The Complete Golfer Harry Vardon 1903

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