| 单词 | skysurfing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasskysurfing skysurfing n. originally U.S. (a) (in early use) hang-gliding (now rare); (b) a type of skydiving in which the skydiver wears a board resembling a surfboard attached to his or her feet; cf. skyboarding n. at sky board n. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > parachuting and hang-gliding > [noun] > hang-gliding skysurfing1969 hang-gliding1971 skyboarding1994 1969 Flying Mag. Apr. 95/1 (advt.) Soaring is a natural sport—sometimes called three-dimensional sailing, sky-sailing, skyskiing, air-skiing or sky-surfing, but it is flying! 1972 Pop. Sci. June 94/2 Today's hang-glider pilots like to call their sport ‘sky-surfing’. 1990 Life (Nexis) June 2 (caption) Sky surfing. After jumping from a plane with only a parachute and a four-foot surfboard, [he] rides a wave of clouds 13,000 feet above the countryside. 2001 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) June 26 Whether they're skysurfing, bungee jumping, or street luging, 30 million Americans have caught the adrenaline bug. < as lemmas |
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