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# skydiver

«skydiver» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who jumps out of an aeroplane high up, falls…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a skydiver, skydivers)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skydiver/#m1)

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

### In the corpora

- [Skydivers spread out like a starfish to catch more air, and dive head first like an arrow to go faster.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/3-parachutes-and-falling-safely/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «skydiver» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skydiver/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.