gerund/present participle

[user_gary]

I like eating oranges but I dislike peeling them.

Here eating modifies noun `oranges'.

So can I say `eating' is `adjective present participle'

Also I think `peeling' is `gerund'.

Am I right?

[sschwandeg]

Both eating and peeling are gerunds.
"eating oranges" as an adjective/Present participle would mean that oranges can eat - but they usually do not!. Compare: sleeping children

[Casiopea]

Welcome, sschwandeg.

[Casiopea]

I like eating oranges but I dislike peeling them.

Here eating modifies noun `oranges'.

So can I say `eating' is `adjective present participle'

Also I think `peeling' is `gerund'.

Am I right?

The only verb that takes a present participle (i.e., -ing) is the verb BE (is, am, was, were, etc.). Like and dislike are not forms of the verb BE, so they cannot take a present participle. They take objects and, as you know, gerunds function as objects:

Gerunds
I like eating oranges. <finite verb + object)
I dislike peeling them. <finite verb + object)

All the best.