See planking in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "plank",
"3": "ing"
},
"expansion": "plank + -ing",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From plank + -ing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "plankings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "planking (countable and uncountable, plural plankings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A series of planks; a group of planks."
],
"id": "en-planking-en-noun-ga1hUTw6",
"links": [
[
"plank",
"plank"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "dǎsčena oblicovka",
"sense": "series of planks",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "дъсчена облицовка"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "series of planks",
"word": "lankutus"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "series of planks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tavolato"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"lang_code": "nrf",
"sense": "series of planks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bordage"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"lang_code": "nrf",
"sense": "series of planks",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bordaille"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"lang_code": "nrf",
"sense": "series of planks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bord dé baté"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "series of planks",
"word": "entablado"
},
{
"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "series of planks",
"word": "entarimado"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "4 89 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 72 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ing",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "13 71 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "6 87 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 88 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 74 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 88 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch Low Saxon translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "13 72 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "13 73 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "13 73 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norman translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 74 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "13 71 16",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Internet memes",
"orig": "en:Internet memes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
17,
25
]
],
"ref": "2012 March 28, Trey Parker, “Faith Hilling”, in South Park, season 16, episode 3, spoken by Reporter:",
"text": "First, there was planking. People taking pictures of themselves in a planked position and putting the photos on the Internet.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
14,
22
]
],
"ref": "2020, Harmony Bench, Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common:",
"text": "[…] 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, […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The practice of lying face down with arms to the sides, in unusual public spaces, and taking photographs to record the act."
],
"id": "en-planking-en-noun-Np5wQiO8",
"links": [
[
"lying",
"lying"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) The practice of lying face down with arms to the sides, in unusual public spaces, and taking photographs to record the act."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"slang",
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "nds-nl",
"lang": "Dutch Low Saxon",
"lang_code": "nds-nl",
"sense": "practice of lying face down with arms to the sides",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "plaanken"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 98",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "practice of lying face down with arms to the sides",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "planking"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-planking.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-planking.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-planking.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-planking.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-planking.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "planking"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "plank",
"3": "ing"
},
"expansion": "plank + -ing",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From plank + -ing.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "planking",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "plank"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of plank"
],
"id": "en-planking-en-verb-u-K032IP",
"links": [
[
"plank",
"plank#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-planking.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-planking.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-planking.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-planking.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-planking.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "planking"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ing",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verb forms",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Dutch Low Saxon translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Norman translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"en:Internet memes"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "plank",
"3": "ing"
},
"expansion": "plank + -ing",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From plank + -ing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "plankings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "planking (countable and uncountable, plural plankings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A series of planks; a group of planks."
],
"links": [
[
"plank",
"plank"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
17,
25
]
],
"ref": "2012 March 28, Trey Parker, “Faith Hilling”, in South Park, season 16, episode 3, spoken by Reporter:",
"text": "First, there was planking. People taking pictures of themselves in a planked position and putting the photos on the Internet.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
14,
22
]
],
"ref": "2020, Harmony Bench, Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common:",
"text": "[…] 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, […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The practice of lying face down with arms to the sides, in unusual public spaces, and taking photographs to record the act."
],
"links": [
[
"lying",
"lying"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) The practice of lying face down with arms to the sides, in unusual public spaces, and taking photographs to record the act."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"slang",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-planking.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-planking.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-planking.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-planking.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-planking.wav.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "dǎsčena oblicovka",
"sense": "series of planks",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "дъсчена облицовка"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "series of planks",
"word": "lankutus"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "series of planks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tavolato"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"lang_code": "nrf",
"sense": "series of planks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bordage"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"lang_code": "nrf",
"sense": "series of planks",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bordaille"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"lang_code": "nrf",
"sense": "series of planks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bord dé baté"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "series of planks",
"word": "entablado"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "series of planks",
"word": "entarimado"
},
{
"code": "nds-nl",
"lang": "Dutch Low Saxon",
"lang_code": "nds-nl",
"sense": "practice of lying face down with arms to the sides",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "plaanken"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "practice of lying face down with arms to the sides",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "planking"
}
],
"word": "planking"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ing",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verb forms",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Dutch Low Saxon translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Norman translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"en:Internet memes"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "plank",
"3": "ing"
},
"expansion": "plank + -ing",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From plank + -ing.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "planking",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "plank"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of plank"
],
"links": [
[
"plank",
"plank#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-planking.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-planking.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-planking.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-planking.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-planking.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "planking"
}
Download raw JSONL data for planking meaning in English (5.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.