Dictionary entry

Skydiver

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

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Definition

skydiving /'skaÇdaÇvÇ5/ n [U] ေလယာဥ္မွ အလြတ္ထိုးဆင္း၍ မိမိလိုရာသို႔ ဦးတည္ ဝဲ ဆင္းကာ သင့္တင့္သည့္ အျမင့္ေပ ေရာက္မွ ထီးဖြင့္ရေသာ ေလထီးခုန္နည္း။ skydiver n

Examples

  1. ‘I'd had many adventures and skydiving seemed merely the next in line.’
  2. ‘They have been actively involved in sport all their lives
  3. from athletics to skydiving
  4. from basketball to scuba diving.’
  5. ‘Fifteen years ago
  6. skydiving did not have full-time teams.’
  7. ‘Gilbert bet that he would try skydiving if Roddick won his first Masters tournament.’
  8. ‘Some people get over their acrophobia by going skydiving or bungee jumping.’
  9. ‘We've both done some skydiving
  10. bungee jumping
  11. and whitewater rafting.’
  12. ‘The 50-year-old did his first jump for charity in 1983 and soon became addicted to skydiving
  13. taking part in a host of competitions.’
  14. ‘Not only do they jump out of perfectly good airplanes - they name parachutes and skydiving schools after Icarus.’
  15. ‘Sky surfing is skydiving with a special board that lets the jumper perform tricks in mid-air.’
  16. ‘His goal is simple
  17. the perpetuation of the sport of skydiving.’
  18. ‘And she's into skydiving
  19. hang-gliding and bungee jumping!’
  20. ‘Since he got involved in skydiving in 1980
  21. Colonel Strand has accumulated approximately 1
  22. 600 jumps.’
  23. ‘We weren't thrill seekers jumping off cliffs
  24. or skydiving
  25. or driving fast vehicles
  26. but we did what many of you do.’
  27. ‘It is similar to the maneuvers I perform in freefall while skydiving.’
  28. ‘The aircraft belonged to Skydive Thailand
  29. which takes passengers for skydiving.’
  30. ‘This was rather puzzling
  31. because she had been exercising vigorously until 10 days earlier
  32. and enjoyed the sport of skydiving.’
  33. ‘And different experiences are something that Julie has thrown herself headlong into
  34. including free-fall skydiving and abseiling.’
  35. ‘You can keep fishing - skydiving is the extreme sport for me.’
  36. ‘But the statistics show that skydiving is one of the safest sports in the world; driving to a dropzone is generally more dangerous.’
  37. ‘Treut shows them partying
  38. having dinner
  39. skydiving
  40. riding motorcycles
  41. performing their art
  42. and having fun.’