Rowing is a fine sport.  The swish of oars, boat on water, speed and timing - a great way to exercise and relax while enjoying the outdoors and freedom.

It is also handy for making some oarsome puns.

This page is dedicated solely to the pursuit of rowing humor.  We may catch the occasional crab but that is all part of being a coxless writer whose sole aim to to get to the end of the page without sinking.

There will be no crewed jokes here.

​Without further ado - ready all, row!

boating company floated, then promptly sunk
caught a crab with first row - stroke of luck
easy rowing - oar so simple

exercise with oarobics
female rowing team - no cox
fishing with oars - catch crabs

​flirtatious oarsman - Rowmeo
genius rower is a little oartistic
head of the river - take a bow

holiday in Rowmania - leave from Heathrow
hold a wake for departed oarsmen
hot oars - heatstroke

​Italian stroke - rowman
losing team - cry me a river
music for rowing - skiffle

out of work oarsman lives on Skid Row
pirate rowers fly a Scull and Crossbones
practice on dry land - lawn rowing

regattas, I have a few, but then again, too few to mention
rower with sword - gay blade
rowing four - quad squad

run your ​last race on death row
song for the team - crew sing
successful rowers eat Coxes apples

training a crew - rowing pains
​useless team - coxless
witty rowing puns - so oariginal

Different strokes for different folks - we like what we like
To be oar not to be - Shakespeare
​Water, water, everywhere - well yeah

Courteney Cox - Friends actress
​Jethrow Tull - invented the seed drill
River Phoenix - actor

Rowman Polanski - director
​Dana Scully - X-Files
​Howard Stern - shock jock
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The Strokes - rock band
​Oarson Welles - director

Blade Runner - wet sci fi
Quadrophenia - The Who take up rowing
Scull Island - big monkey learns how to row
​Shape of Water - it's flat

eBlade - secondhand rowing equipment
FloatBook - catch-up with team members 
Feathereddit - Reddit for rowing types

LaunchedIn - find a new crew
NetSkiffs - movie night
​OnlyCoxes - for fans of hunky rowers

Punterest - galleries of floating craft
Rower - Tinder for oarsmen, swipe port / starboard
SnapCatch - rowing pics with captions

​Sportify - music for rowing
Sinkipedia - everything you need to know

I Lost My Heart To A Starboard Trooper - Sarah Brightman
Ol' Man River - Paul Robeson
​Never Mind the Rowlocks - Here's the Water Pistols

River Deep, Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner state the bleedin' obvious
​Row, row, row your boat - nursery rhyme
The First Crab Is the Deepest - Rod Stewart

Here are some handy words for making puns about rowing.

blade, bow, catch, crab, crew, cox, coxless, drive, feather, float, launch, oar, port, quad, regatta, river, row, rowing, scull, sink, skiff, starboard, stern, stroke, wake, water

Despite a love for all things rowing there is still a lot of work to do with this page.

Rather than an Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race set of puns we have ended up in a slowly deflating dinghy with a paddle disappearing from view.

No matter.  It will get better with practice and a favourable current.

​Thanks for visiting.  Let's do launch sometime.