stage-diving
noun [mass noun]
The practice (typically among audience members) of jumping from the stage at a rock concert or other event to be caught and carried aloft by the crowd below.The atmosphere in Dry is pretty electric with double stage-diving and more sweat than a sauna for the overweight....
- What other venue could offer dancing in the pews, stage-diving off the pulpit, and vocals carrying unassisted by a PA system?
- He plays Dewey, a heavy rock musician - in both senses - who is thrown out of his band for excessive guitar solos and inappropriate stage-diving, and has to take a job as a supply teacher at an uptight private infant school.
Derivatives
stage-dive
- Albarn stage-dives in the middle of ‘Crazy Beat’ from Think Tank and drowns in a sea of young male and female bodies, before Smoggy carries the six-footer out like a small child.
- Ronald stage-dives into the crowd, and is deftly moshed back onto the stage, where he strikes a triumphant pose.
- Remember that Pearl Jam video for ‘Even Flow, ‘in which Eddie Vedder stage-dives off a balcony?’
stage-diver
- They continue in a similar vein, meeting with general approval from the audience, particularly the (mostly youthful) stage-divers who punctuate every song with their sweaty antics.
- I missed the video shoot by a day, but a friend of mine is one of the stage-divers in the video.
- Climbing on stages or speakers or any elevated position the stage-diver would then dive out over and into the crowd, usually escaping a bouncer's grasp by moments.