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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

diving

English answer:

diving

Added to glossary by Martina Pokupec (X)
May 1, 2012 14:54
12 yrs ago
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English term

diving

English Other Sports / Fitness / Recreation
Hi!

Does diving mean both swimming under water (free-diving, scuba-diving...) and jumping into the water? If I have both activities in a text, can I use the same word for both?

Thank you for your help!
Responses
3 +3 diving/snorkeling
5 Skindiving

Discussion

Catharine Cellier-Smart May 1, 2012:
@Martina You haven't given us very much info on your text; more would be helpful. For example it might be possible to refer to snorkeling, scuba-diving and free-diving as "water sports" but it depends on your text.
Stephanie Ezrol May 1, 2012:
There is the term "underwater swimming" which is different from diving. Diving usually refers to the form of descent into the water, although the people doing underwater work in diving suits are called divers according to my 1966 Standard College Dictionary (U.S.). I don't think there is a single word for being under the sea. Perhaps some experts may know more.

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diving/snorkeling

or scuba-diving if aqualungs are used.

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Sorry, to answer your question, yes diving can mean both jumping in head first and swimming under water.

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"underwater diving"

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_diving
Note from asker:
Thank you, Mark! I actually need a general name for being under the sea (including, snorkeling, scuba-diving and free-diving)
Peer comment(s):
agree Tony M : The general name is 'diving', but that also covers 'jumping in'
46 mins
agree Yvonne Gallagher : "diving", as Tony says, is general term
5 hrs
agree Lucie Maruniakova
1 day 14 hrs
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Skindiving

diving can mean jumping off of a diving board or platform or it can mean swimming under water

>I actually need a general name for being under the sea (including, >snorkeling, scuba-diving and free-diving)'

try Skindiving
Skindiving - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skindiving
Skindiving may refer to: Free-diving, or breath-hold underwater diving; Scuba diving, as distinct from standard diving in an old-type heavy suit (old usage dating ...

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skin diving: Definition from Answers.com
www.answers.com › Library › Literature & Language › Dictionary
skin diving n. The sport of swimming under water with flippers and a face mask and usually with a snorkel rather than a portable air supply.

"skin diving"
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Peer comment(s):
neutral Catharine Cellier-Smart : I'm a qualified scuba diver, but I would never refer to what I do as skin-diving (also, as your wikipedia link mentions it's an "old usage dating from before drysuits and wetsuits were commonly available")
2 hrs
I guess you use a wetsuit then
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