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SKYDIVING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does skydiving mean?
• SKYDIVING (noun)
The noun SKYDIVING has 1 sense:
1. performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute
Familiarity information: SKYDIVING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("skydiving" is a kind of...):
jump; parachuting (descent with a parachute)
Derivation:
sky dive; skydive (jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute)
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