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paraglider

paraglider

1 5.0
A person who flies a light fabric wing through the air
  • noun
  • /ˈpærəˌɡlaɪdər/
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  • A paraglider has had a miraculous escape after crashing and hitting his head in Victoria's north-east this afternoon.
  • paraglider crash-landed

Examples

  • In the early morning, I spotted several paragliders taking off gracefully from the hilltop under a clear sky.

  • She focuses on his rescues, such as evacuating a paraglider accident victim at Base Camp or his role in helping climbers down from the South Col during the 1996 disaster.

    Blog text (34)

  • So I changed to paragliders, which was a new sport at the time when I picked it up, very new.

  • Wah-tsoph-ki readied a paraglider on the hangar deck.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • As a skilled paraglider, she enjoyed the thrill of flying off the mountain and gliding across the valley.

  • The competition attracted many paragliders, each showcasing their unique flying styles and techniques.

Synonyms

flyer
vsparaglider
109 3.3

A person who travels by plane or pilots one

is a sport pilot who uses a light fabric wing without rigid structure recreationally

Surface Forms

paraglider singular
paragliders plural

Morphology

paraglider = paraglide (semi-transparent) = para + glide + er

The agentive suffix '-er' is regular, but the base verb 'paraglide' and its prefix are still somewhat specialized for average learners.

Etymology

Paraglider can also mean the person who flies that wing; with the same parts para- (as in parachute 'to protect') and glide ('to move smoothly'), a paraglider is simply someone who uses a light wing to glide through the air.