parasailing
noun, verb
parasailing is a noun meaning “A recreational activity where a person is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat) while attached to a specially designed parachute, known as a…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-R-A-S-A-I-L-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does parasailing mean?
noun
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A recreational activity where a person is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat) while attached to a specially designed parachute, known as a parasail.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of parasail
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is parasailing?
Parasailing appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 95,993rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Parasailing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense recreational activity:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | parapente |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.