skin diven.
/ˈskɪndʌɪv/, U.S. /ˈskɪnˌdaɪv/ A dive undertaken without a deep-sea diving suit. See skin-diving n. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > skin-diving > [noun]
skin-diving1905
skin dive1936
free-diving1948
aqualunging1953
goggle-dive1953
sub-aqua1957
snorkelling1959
scuba-diving1962
scubaing1973
scuba1975
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > [noun] > underwater swimming > an act of
saturation1872
skin dive1936
saturation dive1949
goggle-dive1953
1936 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 29 Oct. 23/5 In a 70-foot skin dive a diver could do only the simplest work.
1953 J. Y. Cousteau Silent World i. 9 Vanity coloured our early skin dives. We plumed ourselves at the thought that we latecomers could attain the working depths of pearl and sponge divers who had made their first plunges as infants.
1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media xxiii. 233 The smarter advertisers have made free with fur and fuzz, and blur and buzz. They have, in a word, taken a skin-dive. For that is what the TV viewer is. He is a skin-diver, and he no longer likes garish daylight on hard, shiny surfaces.
1991 R. Miller Sowboy xxiv. 191 I wish I could take you, but I can't... I'll rig you a scuba someday, and take you on a skin dive.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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