Definition of skydiving
: the sport of jumping from an airplane and typically executing a prolonged free fall before deploying a parachute
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The Alaska Skydive Center is bringing you a bevy of different skydiving jumps to try: glacier jumps, helicopter jumps and a midnight solstice jump.
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The Balloon Glow will be followed by a nighttime skydiving performance. 4-6 p.m. Friday, 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Howell High School.
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Emmett is a soccer player with a learning disability who, much to his surprise, was invited to go skydiving for the first time in his life.
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The research concluded that BASE jumping appeared to hold a five- to eight-fold increase risk of injury or death compared with skydiving.
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Calling itself one of the world's largest skydiving centers, the Eloy business averages 135,000 jumps each year.
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Check the website for open track days and private skydiving sessions.
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Sidho would like to put an indoor skydiving facility in that space.
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This time, Cruise and McQuarrie walked the audience through the filming of a skydiving sequence in which Cruise must give another character life-saving oxygen after they're both struck by lightning while plummeting toward Paris.
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First Known Use of skydiving
1955
SKYDIVING Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of skydiving for English Language Learners
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: the sport of jumping from an airplane and falling through the sky before opening a parachute
SKYDIVING Defined for Kids
Definition of skydiving for Students
: the sport of jumping from an airplane using a parachute
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