planking

English

Etymology

From plank ‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

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Noun

planking (sense 2)

planking (countable and uncountable, plural plankings)

1. A series of planks; a group of planks.
2. The practice of lying face down with arms to the sides, in unusual public spaces, and taking photographs to record the act.
   • 2020, Harmony Bench, Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common:

     […] but, like planking, horsemanning, Tebowing, Hadoukening, and other viral photography memes, as a genre of public performance, dance in public is greatly facilitated by the channels of distribution that social media offer, […]

Translations

series of planks

• Bulgarian: дъсчена облицовка f (dǎsčena oblicovka)
• Finnish: lankutus (fi)
• Italian: tavolato (it) m
• Norman: bordage m, bordaille f, bord dé baté m
• Spanish: entablado (es), entarimado (es)

practice of lying face down with arms to the sides

• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: plaanken n

• Spanish: planking m

Verb

planking

1. present participle and gerund of plank