diving

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, dive +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dīvʹĭng, IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ.vɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ

Verb

diving

1. present participle and gerund of dive

Noun

diving (countable and uncountable, plural divings)

1. The action of the verb to dive in any sense.
2. The sport of jumping into water, often acrobatically.
3. Descending below the surface of the water to interact with the environment.
4. (soccer, sports) The act of pretending to be tripped or brought to the ground by an opposition player in order to secure a undeserved penalty.

Derived terms

terms related to diving as a noun

• altitude diving
• bin diving
• buddy diving
• cage diving, cage-diving
• cave diving, cave-diving
• clearance diving
• cliff diving, cliff-diving
• death diving
• deep diving
• deep-sea diving
• diving bell, diving-bell
• diving board, diving-board
• diving boat
• diving brick
• diving chamber
• diving cylinder
• diving dress, diving-dress
• diving event
• diving helmet
• diving knife
• diving mask
• diving medicine
• diving plane, diving-plane
• diving platform
• diving reel
• diving reflex
• diving regulator
• diving scooter
• diving shot
• diving suit, diving-suit
• diving support vessel
• drift diving
• ducking and diving
• dumpster diving, dumpster-diving
• fancy diving
• fire diving
• free diving, free-diving, freediving
• group diving
• hedge-diving
• ice diving
• kayak diving
• land diving
• land-diving
• mammalian diving reflex
• mud diving
• muff diving, muff-diving
• naval diving
• night diving
• no clear surface diving
• nondiving
• Olympic diving
• open-water diving
• pearl diving, pearl-diving
• penetration diving
• plunge diving
• police diving
• professional diving
• recreational diving
• saturation diving
• scuba diving, scuba-diving
• skin diving, skin-diving, skindiving
• skip diving
• sky diving, sky-diving, skydiving
• smoke diving
• snorkel diving
• solo diving
• sport diving
• sportdiving
• stage diving, stage-diving
• surface supplied diving, surface-supplied diving
• synchronised diving, synchronized diving
• technical diving
• trash diving
• Trumpster diving
• underwater diving
• web diving
• wreck diving

 

Translations

action of the verb "to dive"

• Bulgarian: гмуркане n (gmurkane)
• Finnish: sukeltaminen (fi)
• French: (corresponding to senses of "to dive" translated by "plonger") plongement (fr) m, (in football, of a goalkeeper) plongeon (fr) m
• Greek: κατάδυση (el) f (katádysi)
• Latvian: niršana f
• Russian: ныря́ние (ru) n (nyrjánije)
• Spanish: zambullida (es) f, zambullidura (es) f, zambullón m, zambullimiento (es) m, zabullida (es) f, zabullidura f, zabullimiento m

sport of jumping head first into water

• Arabic: غَطس
• Bulgarian: скок във вода m (skok vǎv voda)
• Catalan: salts (ca) m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 跳水 (zh) (tiàoshuǐ)

• Danish: udspring n
• Finnish: uimahyppy (fi)
• French: plongeon (fr) m
• German: Wasserspringen (de) n
• Greek: καταδύσεις (el) f pl (katadýseis)
• Hebrew: קפיצה למים
• Indonesian: loncat indah (id)
• Italian: tuffi (it) m pl
• Kazakh: суға секіру (suğa sekıru)
• Latvian: daiļlēkšana f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stuping m or f

  Nynorsk: stuping f

• Polish: skoki do wody m pl
• Russian: ныря́ние (ru) n (nyrjánije), прыжки́ в во́ду m pl (pryžkí v vódu)
• Spanish: clavado (es) m, clavada (es) f, clavadismo m

practice of swimming underwater

• Bulgarian: гмуркане n (gmurkane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 潜水 (zh) (qiánshuǐ)

• Danish: dykning c
• Finnish: sukellus (fi)
• French: plongée sous-marine (fr) f
• German: Tauchen n
• Greek: κατάδυση (el) (katádysi)
• Hebrew: צלילה (he) f
• Hungarian: búvárkodás (hu)
• Indonesian: penyelaman (id)
• Italian: subacquea (it) f
• Japanese: ダイビング (ja) (daibingu)
• Korean: 다이빙 (ko) (daibing)
• Macedonian: нуркање c (nurkanje)
• Polish: nurkowanie (pl) n
• Russian: ныря́ние (ru) n (nyrjánije), да́йвинг (ru) m (dájving), подво́дное пла́вание n (podvódnoje plávanije)
• Spanish: buceo (es) m, submarinismo m
• Swedish: dykning (sv) c
• Ukrainian: да́йвінг m (dájvinh)

act of pretending to be tripped

• Spanish: piscinazo (es) m

Adjective

diving (not comparable)

1. That or who dives or dive.

Derived terms

terms derived from diving as an adjective

• coastal diving bird
• diving beetle
• diving duck
• diving goiter, diving goitre
• diving header
• diving loop
• diving petrel, diving-petrel
• diving-pigeon
• the Diving Saucer
• diving spider, diving-spider
• Law's diving-goose

Translations

that or who dives or dive

• Danish: dykkende
• Finnish: sukeltava (fi)
• French: plongeant (fr), plongeur (fr)

See also

• diving stone

Anagrams

• viding