bungee jumping
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈbʌn.dʒi ˈdʒʌm.pɪŋ/
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puenting
- I have bungee jumped, parasailed, rode elephants, and jet skied in Thailand.
- go bungee jumping
- thrills of bungee jumping
- bungee jumping site
So they they, they have a rite of passage, that tribe that serves as the precursor of commercial bungee jumping whereby they take vine ropes.
- So they they, they have a rite of passage, that tribe that serves as the precursor of commercial bungee jumping whereby they take vine ropes.
- Skydiving, mountain climbing, snowmobiling, backpacking, bungee jumping, duck hunting, shooting someone in the asshole with a dart gun off.
Examples
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I've been skydiving, bungee jumping, raced triathlons, and I've completed a night dive in the Great Barrier Reef.
Blog text (11) -
The next morning we drove into Queenstown and this is where we did the bungee jumping and Hang Gliding.
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All he likes to talk about is bungee jumping.
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You can go bungee jumping.
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I thought bungee jumping was so safe.
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Bungee-jumping is just too dangerous a sport.
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Then I'm going bungee jumping.
Fiction book (1996) -
Well, I suggest Bob try skydiving or bungee jumping this offseason.
Blog text (30) -
I can now say I have bungee jumped the world's highest bungee—216 meters (709 feet!) high above the Bloukrans River.
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Many thrill seekers enjoy bungee jumping off high cliffs for an adrenaline rush.
Synonyms
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4.1
Jumping from a plane for sport and opening a parachute during the fall
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3.8
An activity of jumping from a plane using a parachute
How Thrilling
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: a B1 learner who knows 'bungee' (an elastic cord) and 'jumping' (the action of jumping) can infer it refers to jumping while attached to a bungee cord. This is a literal noun-noun activity name, common cross-linguistically, so the meaning is immediately derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Bungee jumping may come from the picture of someone jumping from a high place while tied to a stretchy rope called a bungee, like a giant rubber band. The bungee stretches and pulls you back, so the name now means jumping with an elastic cord that keeps you from hitting the ground.