SKIN-DIVE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Underwater swimming without any more breathing equipment than a snorkel

Synonyms:

skin-dive; skin diving

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("skin-dive" is a kind of...):

swim; swimming (the act of swimming)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "skin-dive"):

scuba diving (skin diving with scuba apparatus)

snorkel diving; snorkeling (skin diving with a snorkel)

Derivation:

skin-dive (swim underwater with no breathing apparatus other than a snorkel)

Present simple: I / you / we / they skin-dive ... he / she / it skin-dives

Past simple: skin-dived /skin-dove

Past participle: skin-dived /skin-dove

-ing form: skin-diving

Meaning:

Swim underwater with no breathing apparatus other than a snorkel

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "skin-dive" is one way to...):

dive (swim under water)

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

skin-dive (underwater swimming without any more breathing equipment than a snorkel)

skin-diver (an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder)