scuba-dive
Americanverb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of scuba-dive
First recorded in 1960–65
Example Sentences
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This outfitter sets guests up with everything needed to scuba-dive in the region’s blue waters.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022
He’s considering a trip to Antarctica to scuba-dive beneath the icebergs.
From Forbes ● Jun. 4, 2013
I hadn’t scuba-dived in 15 years, and here I was with blacktip reef sharks and sea turtles swimming into the raking light with plankton.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
I had not scuba-dived in years, but I figured it was like riding a bike.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022
In fact, Wahlberg and Zinke scuba-dived into the aquarium.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2017
They scuba-dived, swam and snorkeled in ocean water subjected to fallout, he says, and ate fresh fish from those waters.
From Washington Times ● May 30, 2015
The week after his triumph, Tiger scuba-dived in the Bahamas.
From Time Magazine Archive
He did his National Service in the RAF - where he learned spy skills including photography, flying and scuba-diving - before working for brief periods as a railway clerk and an air steward.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
Both of us later ended up on the same boat for a scuba-diving expedition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
Anoles are the scuba-diving champions of the lizard world, able to stay underwater for more than 16 minutes.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2024
Twenty-six scuba-diving volunteers removed about 100 pounds of garbage from between the sunken pillars and submerged ruins of the historic site of Caesarea Maritima as part of a United Nations World Oceans Day initiative.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2022
He was a short, intense man with a whipcord body who had been through the Green Berets’ scuba-diving school.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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