Kayak

kayak
verb, intransitive. To travel in or use a kayak.
noun. A canoe of a type used originally by the Eskimo, made of a light frame with a watertight covering having a small opening in the top to sit in.

They all got along better when Carla relaxed and let them enjoy a little freedom. She was well aware of how strict these children's parents were: the little ones were regimented almost every minute of their days. Instinctively, Carla knew that was a recipe for dangerous rebellion later in their lives.

Seeing that the long hallway was uncluttered by furniture, she rolled up the runner, then assigned each of the children a small throw-rug from a stack she had found in the pantry. She demonstrated how they could lie on the rugs, pile down, and propel themselves on the polished hardwood with their arms.

The kids took to it like baby otters. She stood at one end of the seventy-foot corridor and watched as they kayaked the length of it, squealing and laughing, racing at times. This would get them good and worn out, she knew, and they would be happy to settle down later and listen to the story she planned to read to them. Meanwhile, she could enjoy watching them play.

Definitions adapted from The New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Inc., 2005 (eBook Edition, copyright 2008), and from Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam Company, Publishers, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1965, depending on which is more convenient to hand.