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# skydiver

noun (a skydiver, skydivers)

«skydiver» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skydiver/#m1)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skydiver/#x1)
- Skydivers fall very fast before opening their parachutes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skydiver/#x2)
- My uncle is a skydiver and has done 200 jumps. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skydiver/#x3)
- Air resistance slows the skydiver down. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skydiver/#x4)
- The skydivers held hands in a circle in the sky. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skydiver/#x5)
- A skydiver must check the parachute carefully before every jump. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skydiver/#x6)

### 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»).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «skydiver» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skydiver/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«skydiver» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/skydiver.html) on Mova free.