Diving

//ˈdaɪ.vɪŋ//

Synonyms for "diving" (55 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (11)

dive acrobatics aerobatics aquaplaning aquatics australian crawl backstroke balneation banking bathe bathing

Strong matches (17)

breaststroke butterfly chandelle crabbing crawl deep-sea diving dog paddle fancy diving fin fishtail fishtailing flapper flipper floating glide

Noun(2 words)

dive diving event

Related words (27)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

13 relation types

More general

3 entries

match swim swimming

Synonyms

1 entries

dive

Related terms

1 entries

diving stone

causes

29 entries

bends death drowning end up in water enjoying sealife underwater entering water from elevated position exhilaration falling get bends get hurt get wet getting wet go deeper in pool going deep into water going somewhere increased pressure from water

Showing 16 of 29 words.

derived

115 entries

Law's diving-goose Olympic diving Trumpster diving altitude diving bin diving buddy diving cage diving cage-diving cave diving cave-diving clearance diving cliff diving cliff-diving coastal diving bird death diving deep diving

Showing 16 of 115 words.

form of

1 entries

dive

has context

2 entries

football sport

has prerequisite

13 entries

ability to swim body of water or liquid courage deep body of water dive into equipment and training large pool of water lot of skill scuba gear skill skill in swimming swimming skill water

has subevent

24 entries

bounce on diving board break neck breaking one's neck breathe through regulator careful doing belly flop drop off drowning falling flip off suv drivers get neutral bouyancy get wet hold breath holding breath hurt yourself jumping into water head first

Showing 16 of 24 words.

is a

6 entries

controlled fall coordinated body movement match olympic sport simple whole body movement sport

part of

1 entries

swimming meet

related to

8 entries

dive diver diving stone opposition penalty pretend secure undeserved

used for

41 entries

competing in olympics competition cover descending into sea divers ecology research enjoying beautiful scenes entering water exercise exploration exploring coral reef exploring ocean realm exploring under water exploring underwater finding sunken treasure food gathering

Showing 16 of 41 words.

Translations

62 translations across 25 languages.

Arabic

1 entries

غَطس noun (sport of jumping head first into water)

Bulgarian

3 entries

гмуркане noun (action of the verb "to dive")
гмуркане noun (practice of swimming underwater)
скок във вода noun (sport of jumping head first into water)

Catalan

1 entries

salts noun (sport of jumping head first into water)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

潜水 noun (practice of swimming underwater)
跳水 noun (sport of jumping head first into water)

Danish

3 entries

dykkende adj (that or who dives or dive)
dykning noun (practice of swimming underwater)
udspring noun (sport of jumping head first into water)

Finnish

4 entries

sukeltava adj (that or who dives or dive)
sukellus noun (practice of swimming underwater)
sukeltaminen noun (action of the verb "to dive")
uimahyppy noun (sport of jumping head first into water)

French

4 entries

plongeant adj (that or who dives or dive)
plongeur adj (that or who dives or dive)
plongeon noun (action of the verb "to dive")
plongeon noun (sport of jumping head first into water)

German

2 entries

Tauchen noun (practice of swimming underwater)
Wasserspringen noun (sport of jumping head first into water)

Greek

3 entries

κατάδυση noun (action of the verb "to dive")
κατάδυση noun (practice of swimming underwater)
καταδύσεις noun (sport of jumping head first into water)

Hebrew

2 entries

צלילה noun (practice of swimming underwater)
קפיצה למים noun (sport of jumping head first into water)

Hungarian

1 entries

búvárkodás noun (practice of swimming underwater)

Indonesian

2 entries

loncat indah noun (sport of jumping head first into water)
penyelaman noun (practice of swimming underwater)

Italian

2 entries

subacquea noun (practice of swimming underwater)
tuffi noun (sport of jumping head first into water)

Japanese

1 entries

ダイビング noun (practice of swimming underwater)

Kazakh

1 entries

суға секіру noun (sport of jumping head first into water)

Korean

1 entries

다이빙 noun (practice of swimming underwater)

Latvian

2 entries

daiļlēkšana noun (sport of jumping head first into water)
niršana noun (action of the verb "to dive")

Macedonian

1 entries

нуркање noun (practice of swimming underwater)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

stuping noun (sport of jumping head first into water)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

stuping noun (sport of jumping head first into water)

Polish

2 entries

nurkowanie noun (practice of swimming underwater)
skoki do wody noun (sport of jumping head first into water)

Russian

4 entries

да́йвинг noun (practice of swimming underwater)
ныря́ние noun (action of the verb "to dive")
ныря́ние noun (sport of jumping head first into water)
ныря́ние noun (practice of swimming underwater)

Spanish

4 entries

buceo noun (practice of swimming underwater)
clavada noun (sport of jumping head first into water)
clavadismo noun (sport of jumping head first into water)
clavado noun (sport of jumping head first into water)

Swedish

1 entries

dykning noun (practice of swimming underwater)

Ukrainian

1 entries

да́йвінг noun (practice of swimming underwater)

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

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I've done rock climbing and deep-sea diving and slept in an Indonesian jungle.

Source: tatoeba (29358)

Have you ever tried scuba diving?

Source: tatoeba (52292)

There is nothing more exciting than scuba diving.

Source: tatoeba (52294)

Ken stands on the diving board.

Source: tatoeba (62537)

Showing 4 of 10 available sentences.

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