Meaning

1 senses

  1. A wing-shaped parachute that lifts a rider in a harness when towed by a motorboat etc

    parachute that will lift a person up into the air when it is towed by a motorboat or a car

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Tom is a parasailing instructor.

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  2. Tom tried parasailing over the sparkling water.

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  3. Tom went parasailing.

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Origin

From para- + sail.

From para- + sail.

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Forms

plural: parasails
Singularparasail
Pluralparasails

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
paraphraseparaplegicparapsychologyparasiteC1parasiticC2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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