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stagediving

stagediving is the alternative spelling of stage diving.

stagediving is the present participle and gerund of stagedive.

Meaning of stage diving

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

Meaning of stagedive

Verb

stagedive (third-person singular simple present stagedives, present participle stagediving, simple past stagedived or (chiefly US) stagedove, past participle stagedived)

  1. (intransitive) To leap from the stage of a concert onto the audience below.
    • I deserve to get raped by a crowd if I stagedive in a dress, I deserve to get raped if I go to a bar and I'm wearing a bikini, I deserve to get raped because I did all these things I said before — nipping a hot young rock star in the bud, having a baby, having been a stripper, having used drugs.1998, John M. Rocco, Brian Rocco, The Nirvana Companion, page 131

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Forms of stagediving

pluralstagedivings

Questions about stagediving

What is stagediving the alternative spelling of?
Stagediving is the alternative spelling of stage diving.

Words near stagediving in the dictionary

  1. stagedive
  2. stagedived
  3. stagediver
  4. stagedivers
  5. stagedives
  6. stagediving
  7. stagedivings
  8. stagedness
  9. stagedom
  10. stagedoor
  11. stagedoors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stagediving (page history and authors); stage diving (page history and authors); stagedive (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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