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🪂 A gliding suit 🪂 To glide in air
wingsuit

wingsuit

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A special suit with fabric between the arms and legs that lets a person glide through the air
  • noun
  • /ˈwɪŋˌsuːt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : traje de alas
  • He practiced landing techniques in his wingsuit before attempting a high-altitude jump.
  • wingsuit flier
  • wingsuit landing

Examples

  • The skydiver wore a wingsuit to glide gracefully through the air during the jump.

  • The world's top 15 wingsuit fliers converged on Zhangjiajie in Hunan province last weekend for the inaugural Tianmen Mountain Grand Prix.

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  • Here's another video of the World Wingsuit Competition on Tianmen Mountain.

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  • If you're BASE jumping in a wingsuit off the side of a mountain and you have a microsecond of lost attention, you're dead.

  • The athlete demonstrated incredible skill while maneuvering in a wingsuit during the aerial display.

Surface Forms

wingsuit singular
wingsuits plural

Morphology

wingsuit = wing + suit (transparent) = wing + suit

The compound is a straightforward combination of 'wing' + 'suit' and denotes a suit that provides wing-like surfaces for gliding.

Etymology

Wingsuit comes from the words wing and suit, where wing means 'the part birds use to fly' and suit means 'clothing'. So a wingsuit is 'clothing' that acts like wings and lets a person glide through the air.