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
"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
The Oceanwide Plaza project, located across Figueroa street from Crypto.com Arena, has become a site for graffiti tagging and even paragliding in recent weeks and posed a headache for city officials and authorities alike.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
What about paragliding off the top of that rock face, too?
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 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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