fishing
The act of catching fish.
Example
“We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.”
Other meanings
Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
“This is good news for the fishing industry.”
A fishery, a place for catching fish.
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "fischynge".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “fishing” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.