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
Found an athlete who paraglided into a skyscraper window?
From Nature ● Feb. 6, 2018
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
Family and friends had flown out, and in the lead up to the wedding activities like paragliding and boat days had been booked, so the costs had really added up.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025
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
"I thought I had just slept funny on a sun lounger, I was hoping to go paragliding but because of my backache I couldn't go," he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2025
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
When working from Medellín, Colombia, I was able to go paragliding on my lunch break, because I found a tour that would pick me up and drop me back home within the hour.
From Washington Post
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