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Zorbing is the activity of getting inside a huge see-through plastic ball and rolling down a hill in it. The ball is really two balls, one inside the other, with air between them, so the person bounces about in the middle instead of being hurt. Sometimes there is water inside and you slide around like clothes in a washing machine; sometimes you are in and turn over and over with the ball. It is a holiday-and-theme-park thrill, not a sport with rules or teams — people do it once, scream, take a photo, and talk about it afterwards. It began in New Zealand in the 1990s, and Zorb was originally a company's brand name. The little b became a common word the way people say 'google' for searching — so you will see it written with a small letter, and the makers do not love that. You mostly meet it as the -ing noun: 'go zorbing', 'zorbing is popular here'. The verb 'zorb' exists ('we zorbed down the hill') but sounds playful and is much rarer. The word is informal, cheerful, and slightly dated — it was everywhere around 2005 and is quieter now.
太空球 / 悠遊球(滾大球從山坡滾下來的那個活動)
組成From zorb + -ing, the ending that turns a verb into the name of the activity — as in swimming, camping, surfing. Zorb itself is not built from older pieces: it was invented as a brand name in New Zealand in the mid-1990s, and the word came after the ball, not before it.
原始詞典資料2 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。
zorbingnoun
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A sport in which a participant is secured inside a zorb and rolled downhill.
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。