diving

Plural: divings

Noun

• an athletic competition that involves diving into water
• a headlong plunge into water
• The action of the verb to dive in any sense.
• The sport of jumping into water, often acrobatically.
• Descending below the surface of the water to interact with the environment.
• The act of pretending to be tripped or brought to the ground by an opposition player in order to secure an undeserved penalty.

Verb

Verb Forms: dive, dived, dove, diving, dives

• Plunging headfirst into water or descending sharply.
• drop steeply
• plunge into water
• swim under water
  • "the children enjoyed diving and looking for shells"
• present participle and gerund of dive

Adj

• That or who dives or dive.

Participle

• The action of plunging headfirst into water or descending rapidly.

Examples

• DIVING deep into the dictionary, he unearthed a rare, high-scoring word.
• She was DIVING into the dictionary, desperate to find a word to use her ’Q’.

Synonyms

dive, diving event, plunge, plunk

Related Words

diving stone

Anagrams of diving