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swan dive noun[ C ] USuk /ˈswɒn ˌdaɪv/ us /ˈswɑːn ˌdaɪv/(UKswallow dive) a dive into water in which you hold your arms out from your sides until you are close to the water燕式跳水;(直体)向前跳水 GettyImages/Photodisc/GettyImages SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Swimming anchor anchorman Aqua-Lung aquatics back dive backstroke bathing bellyflop cannonball dip dive diving pearl diver skin diving skin-diver skinny-dipping splash pad splash park swallow dive webbed
Examples of swan dive swan dive It wasn't like he did a swandive off of there. From Chicago Tribune He had described his wife's fall as "a swandive" off the steep creek bank, and that she had landed head first onto the granite ledge below. From CBS News It appears consumers may have been too distracted by his glorious swan dives and monocle smiles to remember the actual product he was hawking. From Fast Company The mechanic seemed to do a beautiful swandive through the flame-tinted air for a moment. From Project Gutenberg Ten seconds later, as the lapping waves reached for her, she did a sort of swandive and landed flat with the raft beneath her. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |