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SKYDIVE
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Irregular inflected form: skydove
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute
Synonyms:
sky dive; skydive
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "skydive" is one way to...):
chute; jump; parachute (jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
skydiver (a person who jumps from a plane and performs various gymnastic maneuvers before pulling the parachute cord)
skydiving (performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute)