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skydiving

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Seven-man freefall hookup.
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Sport of jumping from an airplane at a moderate altitude (e.g., 6,000 ft [1,800 m]) and executing various body maneuvers before pulling the rip cord of a parachute. Competitive events include jumping for style, landing with accuracy, and performing in teams (e.g., making free-fall formations). The sport parachute is designed to be more maneuverable than the safety parachute.

skydiving
the sport of parachute jumping, in which participants perform manoeuvres before opening the parachute and attempt to land accurately
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Staff will leap from moving planes and freefall for several thousand feet at 120mph by taking part in tandem skydives.
Charity skydive by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
It's for a very worthy cause, although doing skydives definitely wasn't in my job description
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Since then, she has done skydives across the UK, Europe and America.
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