sail up a river

to travel upstream on a river in a boat or ship. We sailed up the Amazon River in a large, seagoing ship. It was not possible to sail up the Mississippi as far as we wanted.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Hildred	-	English
Pavli	-	Albanian
Beavis	BEE-vis	Popular Culture
Gregor	GRE-gawr (German)	German, Scottish, Slovak, Slovene
Elric	-	Medieval English
Cesarino	che-sah-REE-no	Italian