skydiving

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,968 of 15,258neutral

Skydiving is jumping from an aircraft and falling before opening a canopy. Go skydiving, a skydiving centre, take up skydiving.

Terminal velocity in the belly-down position is about two hundred kilometres an hour, and free fall from four thousand metres lasts about a minute. A tandem jump, strapped to an instructor, is how nearly everybody does it once.

Definitions of skydiving

1nounskydivingJumping from an aircraft and falling before opening a canopy.B2+
“For her fiftieth birthday, she tried skydiving and loved falling through the clouds.”

skydiving is a sport.

Where it comes from

skydive comes from sky + dive.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Sports & Games Played

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skydiving in the wild

British Skydiving is the national governing body for skydiving in the United Kingdom.
British Parachute Association
The United States Parachute Association (USPA) is a private sports governing body for the sport of skydiving in the United States.
United States Parachute Association
The Parachute Association of South Africa (PASA) manages the sports of parachuting and skydiving in South Africa on behalf of the South African Civil Aviation Authority.
Parachute Association of South Africa
Banzai skydiving is a rumored form of skydiving in which the skydiver throws their parachute out the airplane door, waits, and then jumps after it.
Banzai skydiving
A ripcord is a part of a skydiving harness-container system; a handle attached to a steel cable ending in a closing pin.
Ripcord (skydiving)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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