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rowing

sport where individuals or teams row boats by oar or steer them as a coxswain
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Summary

rowing is an Olympic sport[1]. rowing draws 5,724 Wikipedia views per month (olympic sport category, ranking #1 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: type of sport[3]
  • Subclass of: water sport[4], rowing[5]
  • Commons category: Rowing[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Rowing[7]
  • Commons gallery: Rowing[8]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Rowing[9]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: sport=rowing[10]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[11]
  • Different from: canoeing and kayaking[12]
  • Uses: rowing boat[13], rowing venue[14]
  • Record or record progression: list of world records in rowing[15]
  • Practiced by: rower[16], coxswain[17], rowing coach[18]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[19]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Rowing[20]
  • P14692: Metroland[21]

Why It Matters

rowing has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] rowing is known by 63 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Benjamin Spock Cameron Winklevoss Hugh Laurie Jim Rogers Miro Prince Michael of Kent Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant S. M. Bruce Steve Redgrave Tyler Winklevoss William Henry Waddington

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 27d ago · Infovarius · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → Olympic sport, type of sport
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Instance of: hobby, Moving to rowing"
  2. 4w ago · ならちゃん · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nhk one news topic id → E0000000260
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/54972|batch #54972]]"
  3. 8w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Metroland
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  4. 13w ago · Charp238 · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia of korean culture id → E0052570
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Encyclopedia of korean culture id: E0052570"
  5. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003659-veslovani
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0003659-veslovani, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  6. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Record or record progression → list of world records in rowing
    Topic's main wikimedia portal → Portal:Rowing
    Aliases → —
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 12077, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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