Examples include (AmE first): jump rope / skipping rope; racecar / racing car; rowboat / rowing boat; sailboat / sailing boat; file cabinet / filing cabinet; dial tone / dialling tone. More generally, AmE has a tendency to drop inflectional suffixes, thus favouring clipped forms: compare...
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Recreation Facilities and Activities: Swangard Stadium and numerous other sports, recreation, and community complex's, Burnaby Lake Rowing Pavilion, Tennis / Racquet courts, Burnaby Velodrome (North America's only indoor cycling track), golf courses, wildlife sanctuary, fishing, boating, swimming, mus...
Water borne exercises were enjoyable. Building rafts tested the imagination; one comprising three fuel drums lashed together with boards and ropes to form a triangular craft worked satisfactorily until one of its crew changed his position with predictable (and wetting) consequences. Rowing cutters up ...