skydive
Americanverb (used without object)
Etymology
Origin of skydive
Example Sentences
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A man has died while taking part in a skydive at an airfield in Devon.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
Above her couch, she has hung her most prized family possessions: photos of her grandmother featured in the Evansville Press in Indiana in 1964 after she learned to skydive and joined a parachute club.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024
The year after his procedure, Moody helped break a national record for participating in the largest group of people to skydive together while wearing wingsuits, those getups that turn people into flying squirrels.
From Salon • Sep. 8, 2024
So, given the right set of circumstances, the possibility that a phone could survive a skydive is not so wild.
From Slate • Jan. 11, 2024
“I don’t know what it means, but it’s gotta be better than that fake skydive earlier.”
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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