skydiving
noun, verb
skydiving is a noun meaning “The practice of performing acrobatic movements during the freefall phase of a parachute jump” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-K-Y-D-I-V-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears 1.0 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does skydiving mean?
noun
- 1
The practice of performing acrobatic movements during the freefall phase of a parachute jump.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of skydive
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce skydiving?
Skydiving has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of skydiving
- sky diving
- sky-diving
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is skydiving?
Skydiving appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th 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).
Words people confuse with skydiving
Also written: sky-diving (one word or two).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Skydiving in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense jumping out of an aircraft and freefalling:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | parachutisme, skydiving |
| German | Fallschirmspringen, Skydiving |
| Spanish | paracaidismo |
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.