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PARACHUTING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Descent with a parachute

Example:

he had done a lot of parachuting in the army

Synonyms:

jump; parachuting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("parachuting" is a kind of...):

descent (the act of changing your location in a downward direction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parachuting"):

skydiving (performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute)

Derivation:

parachute (jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb parachute

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