skydiving
noun
Examples of skydiving in a Sentence
Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 5 Mar. 2024
Don a flight suit and feel the exhilaration of skydiving – but with a little less danger than the real thing.
—Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
Those interviews were focused on the deaths of Tyler and his tandem instructor Yong Kwon but also delved into the appeal of skydiving, a recreational activity that is adrenaline-pumping but inherently dangerous.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 2024
Appearing on the show became one of her goals, along with more physical activities like ziplining, skydiving and climbing Mount Sinai.
—Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2024
Cooper remembers jumping out of an airplane on a skydiving adventure with Jones to celebrate her 21st birthday.
—Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024
The luxury skydiving experience begins at $30,000 per jump.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2023
New cruise ships are roughly double the size of those built in the 1990s, and resemble floating skyscrapers with a dizzying array of amenities, from skydiving simulators to water parks to bumper cars.
—The Week Staff, theweek, 15 Jan. 2024
In 2008, a skydiving instructor and his student died after a fall while doing a tandem jump over the airport.
—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2024
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Word History
1955, in the meaning defined above
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