كاياك هو نوع من القوارب الصغيرة الأحادية الراكب يكون مدعم بمجذاف ثنائي، أصل كلمة كاياك مأخوذ من كلمة كاجاك من اللغة الغرينلاندية.[1] الأسكيمو هم أول من استخدم هذه القوارب،[2] واليوم تستخدم في المنافسات الرياضية.
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- There is scant evidence of Ainu peoples using the classic kayak design in prehistoric times. the follosing indicates that they did use skin-covered vessels, however: "Like the yara chisei, bark houses, … yara chip, bark boats, were probably substitutes for the skin-covered boat, elsewhere surviving in the coracle and kayak. Skin-covered boats … are referred to in old [Ainu] traditions. -Ainu material culture from the notes of N. G. Munro: in the archive of the Royal Anthropological Institute, British Museum, Department of Ethnography, 1994 , p. 33