diving 🔊 noun /ˈdaɪ.vɪŋ/
Etymology By surface analysis, dive + -ing.
1 The action of the verb to dive in any sense.
2 The sport of jumping into water, often acrobatically.
3 Descending below the surface of the water to interact with the environment.
4 Ball games , Games , Hobbies, Lifestyle, Soccer , Sports
Derived terms 102 terms altitude diving, bin diving , buddy diving, cage diving , cage-diving, cave diving, cave-diving, clearance diving, cliff diving, cliff-diving, death diving , deep diving , deep-sea diving, diving bell , diving-bell, diving board , diving-board, diving boat , diving brick , diving chamber, diving cylinder , diving dress, diving-dress, diving event, diving helmet, diving knife , diving mask , diving medicine, diving plane , diving-plane, diving platform , diving reel, diving reflex, diving regulator , diving scooter , diving shot, diving sphere , diving suit , diving-suit, diving support vessel , drift diving, ducking and diving, dumpster diving , dumpster-diving, fancy diving, fire diving, free diving, free-diving , freediving, group diving, hedge-diving , ice diving , kayak diving, land-diving, land diving , mammalian diving reflex, mud diving, muff diving , muff-diving, naval diving, night diving, no clear surface diving, nondiving , Olympic diving , open-water diving, pearl diving, pearl-diving, penetration diving, plunge diving, police diving, professional diving, recreational diving , saturation diving , scuba diving , scuba-diving, skin diving , skin-diving, skindiving, skinny diving , skip diving, sky diving, sky-diving, skydiving , smoke diving , snorkel diving, solo diving, sportdiving , sport diving , stage diving , stage-diving, surface supplied diving, surface-supplied diving , synchronised diving, synchronized diving , tec diving , tech diving , technical diving , trash diving, Trumpster diving , underwater diving, web diving , wreck diving
diving 🔊 adj Etymology By surface analysis, dive + -ing.
1 That or who dives or dive.
Derived terms coastal diving bird, diving beetle , diving duck , diving goiter, diving goitre, diving header , diving loop, diving petrel , diving-petrel, diving-pigeon, the Diving Saucer, diving spider, diving-spider, Law's diving-goose
Related terms diving stone