skin-diver

Noun

Meaning

an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

skin diver

Synonyms

aquanaut dipper piston diving immersion diver plunger dishwasher pearler displacer pearl diver pearl fisher

Hypernyms

bather swimmer natator

Examples

My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the '60s 'Sea Hunt,' where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver. Jeff Bridges

Close letter words and terms

skin-crawling skin-deep skin-dive skin-of-the-teeth victory skin-on