SKYDIVE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: skydove

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)