boating vs rowing

boating

noun
  • The activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat. 

  • In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish. 

rowing

noun
  • The action of propelling a boat with oars. 

  • The action of the verb to row. 

  • The rowing of boats as a competitive sport. 

  • The act of having a row, or argument. 

How often have the words boating and rowing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )