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Meanings of skydiving in English

Russian
парашютизм
Portuguese
historias de pqdt
Spanish
paracaidismo
Catalan
paracaigudisme
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Action sport of exiting an aircraft and returning to Earth using a parachute.

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        парашютизм
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        Examples for "parachuting"
        Examples for "parachuting"
        1
        Milkweed pods bursting open and a thousand seeds parachuting across the fields.
        Sympathy for the devil
        2
        He told of being shot down and parachuting into an island jungle.
        Riding rockets
        3
        From the sky, diapers, bags, bottles, and teddy bears are parachuting in.
        The Hunger Pains
        4
        The rate of fall is slow in parachuting to the ground.
        A History of Aeronautics
        5
        Witnesses say they saw crew parachuting out before it started to go down.
        The Guardian
        Usage of skydiving in English
        1
        James Corden recently went on a skydiving adventure with stuntman and 'Mr.
        The South African
        2
        In contrast, such minority activities as skydiving and surfing had full-page features.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Ms Giffords undertook the challenge at a skydiving site near Tucson, Arizona.
        BBC
        4
        Robbins flies the couple to his home island of Fiji for skydiving.
        Reuters
        5
        The plane crashed seconds after taking off on a routine skydiving flight.
        Radio NZ
        6
        The video of two people skydiving in a tube looks almost magical.
        Wired
        7
        The 40-year-old was married, and a thrillseeker keen on surfing and skydiving.
        News.com.au
        8
        RM: I've been skydiving every year for the past few years.
        Ebony
        9
        Soon, Americans by the thousands were enjoying the latest craze: skydiving.
        BBC
        10
        We should go skydiving since you're staying home from work anyway.
        Suck it, wonder woman!: the misadventures of a hollywood geek
        11
        Hours can be lost skydiving your way towards your favourite locations.
        The Guardian
        12
        The other involves a New York skydiving instructor named Donald Zarda.
        Reuters
        13
        Witnesses of the skydiving accident are now being interviewed by transport accident investigators.
        Radio NZ
        14
        Between hits, I had my skydiving and rappelling and white-water rafting.
        Exit strategy
        15
        Then my father arranged to have Madrigal's father go skydiving naked.
        Proven guilty
        16
        I'm going skydiving today, hence my case of frayed nerves -and the monitor.
        Wired
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