skin-dive

Questions about skin-dive

What does skin-dive mean?

skin-dive means "underwater swimming without any more breathing equipment than a snorkel". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in skin-dive?

skin-dive has 2 syllables and divides as skin--dive under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for skin-dive?

Close synonyms include skin diving. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is skin-dive a common word?

skin-dive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.