fishing

noun

1. (uncountable)The act of catching fish.

   “We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.”

   “Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.”

2. (informal, uncountable)The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
3. (uncountable)Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.

   “This is good news for the fishing industry.”

4. (countable)A fishery, a place for catching fish.

   “the rent of the fishings”

   “Generally speaking, the only fishings which appear separately in Valuation Rolls as having a lettable value in their actual state from year to year are salmon-fishings.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of fish