skydiving

See also: sky-diving and sky diving

English

Alternative forms

• sky diving
• sky-diving

Noun

skydiving (uncountable)

1. 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
• Georgian: სკაიდაივინგი (sḳaidaivingi) (colloquial), საპარაშუტო სპორტი (saṗarašuṭo sṗorṭi), პარაშუტით ხტომა (ṗarašuṭit xṭoma)
• German: Fallschirmspringen (de) n, Skydiving n
• Hungarian: ejtőernyőzés (hu) (szabadeséssel) (hu), zuhanóernyőzés
• Italian: paracadutismo (it) m
• Japanese: スカイダイビング (ja) (sukaidaibingu)
• Korean: 스카이다이빙 (seukaidaibing)
• Macedonian: ско́кање со па́добран m pl (skókanje so pádobran)
• 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

1. present participle and gerund of skydive