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skydiving

skydiving

See also: sky-diving and sky diving

English

Alternative forms

Noun

sky diving ‎(uncountable)

The practice of performing acrobatic movements during the freefall phase of a parachute jump.

Derived terms

formation skydiving
indoor skydiving
skydiver
tandem skydiving

Translations

jumping out of an aircraft and freefalling

Chinese:
Mandarin: 高空跳傘, 高空跳伞 ‎(gāokōng tiàosǎn)
Finnish: laskuvarjohyppy (fi)
French: parachutisme (fr) m, skydiving (fr) m
German: Fallschirmspringen (de) n, Skydiving n
Italian: paracadutismo (it) m

Japanese: スカイダイビング (ja) ‎(sukaidaibingu)
Russian: (затяжные) прыжки́ с парашю́том m pl ‎(pryžkí s parašútom), скайда́йвинг (ru) m ‎(skajdájving), парашюти́зм (ru) m ‎(parašutízm)
Spanish: paracaidismo (es) m
Tibetan: གདུགས་མཆོང་ལུས་རྩེད། ‎(gdugs mchong lus rtsed)

See also

parachuting

Verb

skydiving

present participle of skydive