Dictionary

wingsuit en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈwɪŋˌsut/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree English wing Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *sékʷetor Proto-Italic *sekʷōr Vulgar Latin sequor, sequi Vulgar Latin *sequere Vulgar Latin *sequita Old French siute Anglo-Norman suitebor. Middle English sute English suit English wingsuit From wing + suit.

Meanings

1. A special jumpsuit, used in extreme sports like a parachute, which adds surface area to the wearer's body to create lift.
   • Rock climbers Dean Potter and Graham Hunt were wearing wingsuits when they leaped off Taft Point at Yosemite National Park in May and died. Park officials said their parachutes never deployed. […] Strange acknowledged the dangers of wingsuit BASE jumping on his social media accounts and mourned the deaths of fellow jumpers. 2015 October 2, Veronica Rocha, “BASE jumper Johnny Strange dies in wingsuit jump in Swiss Alps”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2016:

Forms

Deriveds

wingsuiter · wingsuited

Translations (3)

es wingsuit (type of jumpsuit) · fi liitopuku (type of jumpsuit) · fr combinaison ailée (type of jumpsuit)