PARACHUTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parachuting mean? 

• PARACHUTING (noun)
  The noun PARACHUTING has 1 sense:

1. descent with a parachute

  Familiarity information: PARACHUTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARACHUTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Descent with a parachute

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

jump; parachuting

Context example:

he had done a lot of parachuting in the army

Hypernyms ("parachuting" is a kind of...):

descent (the act of changing your location in a downward direction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parachuting"):

skydiving (performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute)

Derivation:

parachute (jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute)