A sport in which a wide canopy resembling a parachute is attached to a person's body by a harness in order to allow them to glide through the air after jumping from or being lifted to a height.
翼伞飞行；滑翔伞运动，伞翔运动
Example sentencesExamples
With the addition of parachutes, the sport of paragliding was born, giving gliders not only safety but also grace.
Qualified in parasailing and paragliding, Rao has more than 350 skydives in different parts of the country to his credit.
Though I was going to save bungee jumping, canyoning and the rest of the wild stuff for when I wasn't playing at being an Edwardian vicar, I had decided that paragliding was a must.
In a one-day taster of paragliding with Active Edge, I manage to achieve several exhilarating flights, but not without some thorough grounding first.
The sports he loved - skiing and paragliding as well as kayaking - were high-risk, but he pursued them in a way that was very safe.
Definition of paragliding in US English:
paragliding
nounˈperəˌɡlīdiNGˈpɛrəˌɡlaɪdɪŋ
A sport in which a wide canopy resembling a parachute is attached to a person's body by a harness in order to allow them to glide through the air after jumping from or being lifted to a height.
翼伞飞行；滑翔伞运动，伞翔运动
Example sentencesExamples
Though I was going to save bungee jumping, canyoning and the rest of the wild stuff for when I wasn't playing at being an Edwardian vicar, I had decided that paragliding was a must.
In a one-day taster of paragliding with Active Edge, I manage to achieve several exhilarating flights, but not without some thorough grounding first.
With the addition of parachutes, the sport of paragliding was born, giving gliders not only safety but also grace.
The sports he loved - skiing and paragliding as well as kayaking - were high-risk, but he pursued them in a way that was very safe.
Qualified in parasailing and paragliding, Rao has more than 350 skydives in different parts of the country to his credit.