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stage diving

stage diving noun: the practice of jumping from the stage in a rock concert to be caught and carried aloft by the crowd. Also the present participle and gerund of stage dive.

Noun

stage diving (countable and uncountable, plural stage divings)

  1. The practice of jumping from the stage in a rock concert to be caught and carried aloft by the crowd.
    • Soon metalheads would invade the narrow pit between the stage and seats, often climbing over rows of seats, to start a long series of walls of death, stage divings, crowdsurfing […]2019, Stefano Barone, Metal, Rap, and Electro in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia

Also used as

stage diving is also the present participle and gerund of stage dive.

Forms of stage diving

pluralstage divings

Origin of stage diving

From stage + diving.

Questions about stage diving

What does stage diving mean?
Stage diving means the practice of jumping from the stage in a rock concert to be caught and carried aloft by the crowd.
What part of speech is stage diving?
Stage diving is a noun.
What is the plural of stage diving?
The plural of stage diving is stage divings.

Words near stage diving in the dictionary

  1. stage dive
  2. stage dived
  3. stage diver
  4. stage divers
  5. stage dives
  6. stage diving
  7. stage divings
  8. stage door
  9. stage doored
  10. stage dooring
  11. stage doors

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