skydiver

«skydiver» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who jumps out of an aeroplane high up, falls… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a skydiver, skydivers)

meaning for a pupil

A skydiver is a person who jumps out of an aeroplane high up, falls through the air, and then opens a parachute to land safely. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in stories about adventure, sport and bravery; in science lessons with gravity, air resistance and parachutes; related: skydiving (the sport), skydive (verb).

examples

• The skydiver leapt from the plane at four thousand metres. tree →
• Skydivers fall very fast before opening their parachutes. tree →
• My uncle is a skydiver and has done 200 jumps. tree →
• Air resistance slows the skydiver down. tree →
• The skydivers held hands in a circle in the sky. tree →
• A skydiver must check the parachute carefully before every jump. tree →

note

Countable: a skydiver, skydivers. Science note: a skydiver speeds up only until air resistance balances gravity (terminal velocity); the parachute makes air resistance much bigger. Not the same as a «sky diver» in water (that is a «diver»).

In the corpora

• Skydivers spread out like a starfish to catch more air, and dive head first like an arrow to go faster.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «skydiver» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.