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PARACHUTING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does parachuting mean?
• PARACHUTING (noun)
The noun PARACHUTING has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: PARACHUTING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Descent with a parachute
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
jump; parachuting
Context example:
he had done a lot of parachuting in the army
Hypernyms ("parachuting" is a kind of...):
descent (the act of changing your location in a downward direction)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parachuting"):
skydiving (performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute)
Derivation:
parachute (jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute)
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