fancy diving

American  

noun

1. diving competition from a springboard into water, the contestants being judged chiefly by their grace and control in executing a specified series of dives in a prescribed manner.

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Other Word Forms

• fancy diver
  noun

Example Sentences

Lindgren never played any varsity sports, although swam in a water show at Jones Beach for seven years “by doing fancy diving and by being featured in elaborate aquatic shows,” the Bridgehampton News reported.

From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2015

There would be more trips, more sunburn, more automobile wrecks, more beach bonfires, picnics, fancy diving and moonlit romances than ever before.

From Time Magazine Archive

The question is whether fancy diving can ever become sustained and serious flight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Georgia Coleman, 19, of Los Angeles A. C.: both the high and lowboard fancy diving titles.

From Time Magazine Archive

He learned better presently, however, and he learned, too, how much chance he had against a man who had once won a fancy diving title at Travers Island.

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John