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wingsuit

  • /ˈwɪŋˌsut/ US

noun wingsuits

  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

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noun type of jumpsuit

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@misc{wingsuit_2026,
  title = {wingsuit},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wingsuit},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}