Lexic.us

Definition of Skin-dive

1. Noun. Underwater swimming without any more breathing equipment than a snorkel.

2. Verb. Swim underwater with no breathing apparatus other than a snorkel.

Definition of Skin-dive

1. Verb. To swim underwater with equipment. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Skin-dive

skimp skimp and save skimp over skimped skimpier skimpiest skimpily skimpiness skimpinesses skimping

skimps skimpy skims skin skin-deep skin-dive (current term) skin-diver skin-diving skin-magazine skin-muscle reflexes

skin-puncture test skin-pupillary reflex skin-tight skin aging skin and bone skin and bones skin and connective tissue diseases skin back

Literary usage of Skin-dive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and Other Essays in Contemporary Thought by John Dewey (1910)
"How can the present belief jump out of its present skin, dive into the past, and land upon just the one event (that as past is gone forever) which, ..."

2. How the World is Clothed by Frank George Carpenter (1908)
"They tie their boats to the pole, and then, stripping to the skin, dive down under the water to the bottom. Each diver scrapes the gravel into a big bag ..."

3. How the World is Clothed by Frank George Carpenter (1908)
"They tie their boats to the pole, and then, stripping to the skin, dive down under the water to the bottom. Each diver scrapes the gravel into a big bag ..."

4. Sowboy by Richard Connelly Miller (2003)
"I promise- cross my heart and hope to die- I'll rig you a scuba someday, and take you on a skin dive." He stood. In an echo of George's voice, he commanded: ..."

Other Resources: