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fancy diving

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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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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

We have advertised to give you a fancy diving act in a glass tank of water, and you have all seen that.

From Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank by Vance Barnum

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