fishing

activity of trying to catch fish
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fishing

Summary

fishing is a human activity[1]. fishing draws 2,766 Wikipedia views per month (human_activity category, ranking #9 of 66).[2]

Key Facts

  • fishing's instance of is recorded as human activity[3].
  • The location of fishing was fishing ground[4].
  • fishing is a type of hunting[5].
  • fishing's Commons category is recorded as Fishing[6].
  • fishing's Unicode character is recorded as 🎣[7].
  • fishing's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Fishing[8].
  • fishing's Commons gallery is recorded as Fishing[9].
  • fishing's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Fishing[10].
  • fishing's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as leisure=fishing[11].
  • fishing's depicted by is recorded as Unexpected Fishing[12].
  • fishing's depicted by is recorded as Two Fishing Puttos[13].
  • fishing's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[14].
  • fishing's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[15].
  • fishing's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[16].
  • fishing's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[17].
  • fishing's different from is recorded as recreational fishing[18].
  • fishing's different from is recorded as commercial fishing[19].
  • fishing's studied by is recorded as halieutics[20].
  • fishing's union of is recorded as list of values as qualifiers[21].
  • fishing's practiced by is recorded as fisher[22].
  • fishing's has goal is recorded as fish[23].
  • fishing's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[24].
  • fishing's Wikimedia outline is recorded as outline of fishing[25].
  • fishing's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing[26].
  • fishing's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Fishes[27].

Body

Definition and Type

fishing's instance of is recorded as human activity[3]. fishing is a type of hunting[5].

Influence

Things named for fishing include phishing[28], a cyber adversary technique[29].

Why It Matters

fishing draws 2,766 Wikipedia views per month (human_activity category, ranking #9 of 66).[2] fishing has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] fishing is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for fishing include phishing[28], a cyber adversary technique[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 26d ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id 6158
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P8590]]: 6158, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167478458|FISH AND FISHING (#167478458)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedi"
  2. 27d ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id Q295161
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q295161, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  3. 5w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 ['3FnGQf', '1cLL6a']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 7w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag fishing
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: fishing, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289925583|fishing (#289925583)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  5. 7w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id 2671
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P9106]]: 2671, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107284919|fishing (#107284919)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classical Dictionary"
  6. 9w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id ['h0007423-rybolov', '0263473-rybarstvi']
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0007423-rybolov, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
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