Rapids is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RAPIDS in dictionary:

PLURAL NOUN:
• part of a river with a fast, turbulent current
NOUN:
• RAPID, a swift-flowing part of a river
• a fast-flowing and turbulent part of the course of a river
ADJECTIVE:
• happening in a short time or at a great rate
• (of an action) characterized by great speed
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a fast-moving part of a river
• part of a river with a fast turbulent current

Words related to RAPIDS

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How to use RAPIDS in a sentence

• The main band, headed by an experienced chief, now began to cross the wild rapids between the two divisions of the cascade.
• The Little Salmon River takes him to Five Finger Rapids, a distance of one hundred and twenty miles.
• Cataract Canon alone is forty-one miles long, and has seventy-five cataracts and rapids, of which fifty-seven are within a space of nineteen miles.
• Lawrence River at the head of the Galoup Rapids, three miles below Ogdensburg.
• Except at one or perhaps two points a very big dugout, lightly loaded, could probably run all these rapids.
• In an hour and a half we were again under way, but in ten minutes came to other rapids, where the river ran among islands, and there were several big curls.
• The rapids came just round a sharp bend, and we got caught in the upper part of the swift water and had to run the first set of rapids in consequence.
• This was a long portage, and we camped at the foot of the rapids, having made nearly seven kilometres.
• Rapids are by far the most dangerous enemies of explorers and travellers who journey along these rivers.
• We expected to meet them somewhere below the next rapids, the Inferno.
• We passed within the first four and a quarter miles three small islands, and the same number of bad rapids.
• The water was now excessively cold, and the rapids had been frequent and troublesome.
• From its junction here to the place near which it leaves the mountains, its course is embarrassed by rapids and rocks which the hills on each side have thrown into its channel.
• Consulting our map, we found that we were nearing Eagle Rapids, the first of a turbulent series.
• In two hours Arnold was swept down twenty miles, steering as best he could through the rapids, and avoiding the rocks, in the angry river.
• Many times their vessel narrowly escaped being dashed to pieces on the rocks or in the rapids of the stream.
• They soon swung into the rapids and it was exhilarating fun at first.
• A minute later he was going down the rapids, doing his best to keep his head above water, but with the line wound tightly around his arm.
• He was some quarter mile ahead of them and they could not get near him in the rapids.
• This was not the first time Owen had met with such a disaster while shooting rapids and he had his wits about him for all of the confusion that surrounded him there.
• If obstructions occur in the form of rapids or falls, boat and cargo are carried around them.
• The thump of the Indian drum was added to the deep melody of the rapids.
• In the middle of Grand Rapids she broke amidships, but held together until in the darkness she floated beyond our ken.
• As I stood on the scattered planks which afford a precarious foothold amid the rapids of St.
• His boat had drifted from where he thought he had moored it, and had been dashed to pieces in the rapids below.

Similar words containing RAPID without suffix s

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