- sliding seat
- noun Date: 1874 a rower's seat (as in a racing shell) that slides fore and aft — called also slide
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sliding seat — /ˈslaɪdɪŋ sit/ (say sluyding seet) noun a seat on runners which moves forward and back with the rower s movement to lengthen his or her stroke …
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