cliff diving
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- noun
- /klɪf ˈdaɪvɪŋ/
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buceo de acantilado
- Tomorrow Helmut and Christopher are giving me cliff-diving lessons.
But if you are doing water stuff like swimming or going to the ocean, Cliff diving, a GoPro is fantastic to have.
- But if you are doing water stuff like swimming or going to the ocean, Cliff diving, a GoPro is fantastic to have.
- Two times we talked about Cliff diving.
Examples
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- You ever been cliff diving, man?
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She was cliff diving in California.
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Start cliff diving in Acapulco at the age of 38.
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I move to Acapulco, where cliff diving at night is all the rage, and on Friday evenings, Ted and I sit with tourists in silence as we follow bodies that drop through darkness into a pumice-colored sea.
Fiction book (1999) -
Many tourists enjoy cliff diving from the rugged cliffs into the crystal-clear waters below.
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He learned the basics of cliff diving during his summer vacation in Hawaii.
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The thrill of cliff diving attracts adventure seekers from around the world.
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Morphology
The meaning 'diving into water from a high, steep cliff' is directly derivable from combining 'cliff' (a steep rock face) with 'diving' (the activity of jumping into water). This straightforward noun+activity composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Cliff diving comes from a clear picture: someone diving off a high cliff and falling into the water below. That's why it means 'the activity of diving into water from a high, steep cliff'.