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parasail

parasail noun: a wing-shaped parachute that lifts a rider in a harness when towed by a motorboat etc.

parasail: a wing-shaped parachute that lifts a rider in a harness when towed by a motorboat etc
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Noun

parasail (plural parasails)

  1. A wing-shaped parachute that lifts a rider in a harness when towed by a motorboat etc

Verb

parasail (third-person singular simple present parasails, present participle parasailing, simple past and past participle parasailed)

  1. To take part in the recreational activity of parasailing.

Forms of parasail

Noun
pluralparasails
Verb
third-person singular presentparasails
present participleparasailing
past participleparasailed
pastparasailed

Origin of parasail

From para- + sail.

Words formed from parasail

Questions about parasail

What does parasail mean?
Parasail means a wing-shaped parachute that lifts a rider in a harness when towed by a motorboat etc.
What part of speech is parasail?
Parasail can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of parasail?
The plural of parasail is parasails.

Words near parasail in the dictionary

  1. parasafranine
  2. parasaggital
  3. parasagitally
  4. parasagittal
  5. parasagittally
  6. parasail
  7. parasailed
  8. parasailer
  9. parasailers
  10. parasailing
  11. parasailor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parasail (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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