wingsuit
US/ˈwɪŋˌsut/
wingsuit noun: a special jumpsuit, used in extreme sports like a parachute, which adds surface area to the wearer's body to create lift.
Noun
wingsuit (plural wingsuits)
- A special jumpsuit, used in extreme sports like a parachute, which adds surface area to the wearer's body to create lift.
- Rock climbers Dean Potter and Graham Hunt were wearing wingsuits when they leaped off Taft Point at Yosemite National Park in May and died. Park officials said their parachutes never deployed. […] Strange acknowledged the dangers of wingsuit BASE jumping on his social media accounts and mourned the...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
Forms of wingsuit
| plural | wingsuits |
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Origin of wingsuit
From wing + suit.
Words formed from wingsuit
Questions about wingsuit
- What does wingsuit mean?
- Wingsuit means a special jumpsuit, used in extreme sports like a parachute, which adds surface area to the wearer's body to create lift.
- What part of speech is wingsuit?
- Wingsuit is a noun.
- How do you pronounce wingsuit?
- Wingsuit is pronounced /ˈwɪŋˌsut/ (US).
- What is the plural of wingsuit?
- The plural of wingsuit is wingsuits.
Words near wingsuit in the dictionary
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