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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

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.

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

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It will take Marie and Adelaide more of their time than they’ll want to spare from fancy diving and telling the birds from the wild-flowers, to make jelly and runners.

From Winona of the Camp Fire by Widdemer, Margaret

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