Synonyms for fishing
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Act
piscation dated, piscatology rare, piscicapture dated, piscicide rare
2. Fishery
Definitions
- n. 1
The act of catching fish.
We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
- n. 2
The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- fishings → piscations, piscicides, fisheries, anglings…
Example sentences
- fishery How much is Algeria's fishery sector worth?
- trolling Tom specializes in trolling people on the internet.
- trawling Trawling causes a devastating waste of life in the form of bycatch.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| fishing | falling | |
| fishery | falling | |
| sportfishing | steady | |
| trolling | steady | |
| trawling | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- fishery3, angling2
- 8 letters
- trolling2, trawling
- 9 letters
- piscation, piscicide
- 11 letters
- piscatology
- 12 letters
- sportfishing, piscicapture
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fishery3 = 3 syllables).