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Paragliding is a sport in which you fly with a special parachute shaped more like a wing than like a round umbrella. You may run off a hill, or leave a plane; then you glide — you travel through the air for a long time, not just drop — before you float back down to the ground. That is the difference people care about: ordinary parachuting is mostly falling, with a chute that opens to save you; paragliding is flying. The same word paraglider can mean the wing or the person, which is a little messy, but that is how speakers actually use it.
飛行傘（台灣這樣叫這項運動／那張翼傘；中國大陸較常說「滑翔傘」）
組成來自 paraglider（那張翼傘，也可以指飛的人）。加上 -ing，變成這項活動的名稱。
同家族的字
- paraglider那張翼傘，也指飛的人；運動名從這個詞來
- parachutepara- 這一段：paraglider 本質上是做成翅膀、用來飛的降落傘
- glide後半段：你是在滑翔，不是只往下掉
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
paraglidingnoun/ˈpæɹəɡlaɪdɪŋ/
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The sport of gliding with a paraglider.
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The use of a paraglider in other settings, such as surveillance or military applications.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。