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  • noun The practice of performing acrobatic movements during the freefall phase of a parachute jump.
  • verb Present participle of skydive.

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  • noun performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute

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Examples

  • Now to get the grant to teach the not skydiving course it must include a description of what skydiving is (Hence the educational value here).

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  • 3D may be seen as being a over the top, but given some of the scenes in the original move, skydiving from a skyscraper comes to mind, 3D could kick some serious butt, if done well.

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  • 3D may be seen as being a over the top, but given some of the scenes in the original move, skydiving from a skyscraper comes to mind, 3D could kick some serious butt, if done well.

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  • 1: Crowd may not bring out choir boy in skydiving No. 4 seed

    USATODAY.com 2003

  • Basics for formation skydiving, which is my discipline at the moment.

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  • Call the skydiving operations in your area and interview them.

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  • Call the skydiving operations in your area and interview them.

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  • Call the skydiving operations in your area and interview them.

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  • While the idea of skydiving at half the usual cost sounds like a great deal, if you aren't actually going to go through with it, you're wasting your money.

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  • Authorities found his rental car and passport in the airport parking lot five days later, after a friend in St. Petersburg called the skydiving company.

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  • “Skydiving is a very safe sport these days. Statistically, it’s more dangerous to get snacks out of a vending machine.”

    --https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com

    May 2, 2022

  • Give us a snack, vm. A pepperoni or a packet of chips?

    May 2, 2022

  • @yarb. How about pepperoni-flavored chips?

    May 2, 2022

  • I keep pressing vendingmachine's buttons and yet I never get anything. It's a rort.

    May 3, 2022

  • Is rort a Tasmanian word?

    May 3, 2022

  • Have you tried tilting her, bilby?

    May 3, 2022

  • I've tried everything yarb.

    May 5, 2022

  • The word rort is very much in use across Australia. I think newspapers love to use it because it's short and sharp.

    May 5, 2022