parachuting

Speech parts

1. parachuting - Noun

2. parachuting - Verb

Meaning

descent with a parachute

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

jump start fall spring bound hop jumping dive leap parachute surge vault bounce skip chute
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Antonyms

mount increase develop rise improve grow
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Hypernyms

descent

Hyponyms

skydiving

Examples

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K. Bear Grylls

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard. Dan Quisenberry

Parachuting has taught us to be strong, and only those are needed by our country. Stanisław Sosabowski

he had done a lot of parachuting in the army Source: Internet

A pre-recorded segment featured Bruny Surin passing the flame to Donovan Bailey on the EdgeWalk and parachuting into Rogers Centre. Source: Internet

Airborne Military parachuting or gliding form of inserting personnel or supplies. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

parachutelike parachuter parachutic parachutism parachutist paracicatricial