run rapids

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William Coors, president of Adolph Coors, has himself scaled canyons and run rapids on ten O.B. trips.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he quietly remarked that the experience would teach them how to run rapids in the future.

From Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

They soon found that the moonlight was not bright enough to enable them to run rapids safely, and they consequently had to make frequent carries.

From Northern Diamonds by Pollock, Frank Lillie

Indeed, it seems to me that he must have run rapids above Billings that were quite as menacing as the one which now put his party to so much trouble to avoid.

From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)