paraglide
Americanverb (used without object)
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They milk goats, harvest salt from tide pools, paraglide, and scuba dive for goose barnacles, known in Spain as percebes.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
Ski, paraglide or go canyoning in the Alps.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2020
Dillon was interested in learning how to paraglide.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 13, 2018
Judging from your chapter on trying to paraglide with swifts, birds do seem to have more fun.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2016
"I can't drive a car - but I can paraglide."
From BBC ● May 15, 2016
To avoid what would have been an arduous descent, and add a splash of joy, he paraglided off the top.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
The octogenarian is known for her adventurous nature, after she paraglided over Morzine, France, in her mid-60s.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2023
Swiss activist Bruno Manser paraglided onto the lawn of the political leader of Sarawak in Borneo, and parachuted into a stadium-sized global conference to plead for a halt to deforestation.
From Nature ● Oct. 25, 2016
And while he was there he climbed the same mountain you did, but he done it in half the time… and paraglided off the summit at midnight.
From Time ● Jul. 17, 2015
She has bungee-jumped, sky-dived, paraglided and performed many other acts of derring-do since arriving here.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2014
Places like Moab, Utah, and the Dolomites in Italy offer guided adventures, including rope swings off cliffs and tandem paragliding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Felix Baumgartner, the first person to fall faster than the speed of sound, died at 56 after crashing into a hotel swimming pool while paragliding in Italy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025
A video showed Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff declaring he had carried out "the first Gaza paragliding flight in history".
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2023
This edition raises the stakes by taking all the glamour of yachting and mixing it with extreme activities — including paragliding, exploring caves and helicopter rides.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2022
He says policies can exclude a range of activities, including mountaineering, skydiving, scuba diving, paragliding and backcountry skiing.
From Washington Post
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