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base jumping

base jumping is the alternative letter-case form of BASE jumping.

base jumping is the present participle and gerund of base jump.

Noun capitalized: BASE jumping

BASE jumping (uncountable)

  1. An extreme sport consisting of jumping from a fixed structure on land, using a parachute.
    • Strange acknowledged the dangers of wingsuit BASE jumping on his social media accounts and mourned the deaths of fellow jumpers.2015 October 2, Veronica Rocha, “BASE jumper Johnny Strange dies in wingsuit jump in Swiss Alps”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2016

Verb capitalized: BASE jumping

BASE jumping

  1. (gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of BASE jump

Forms of base jumping

alternative formB.A.S.E. jumping
alternative formbase jumping

Origin of base jumping

From BASE (“Building, Antenna, Span, Earth”) + jumping, four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump.

Questions about base jumping

What does base jumping mean?
Base jumping means an extreme sport consisting of jumping from a fixed structure on land, using a parachute.
What is base jumping the alternative letter-case form of?
Base jumping is the alternative letter-case form of BASE jumping.
What part of speech is base jumping?
Base jumping can be a noun or a verb.

Words near base jumping in the dictionary

  1. base isolation
  2. base jump
  3. base jumped
  4. BASE jumper
  5. BASE jumpers
  6. base jumping
  7. base jumps
  8. base leg
  9. base legs
  10. base level
  11. base levels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: base jumping (page history and authors); BASE jumping (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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