skin diving

1. 1.

   underwater swimming without any more breathing equipment than a snorkel

   Synonymsskin-dive

   Broaderswimming

   Narrowerscuba divingsnorkeling

Questions about skin diving

What does skin diving mean?

skin diving means "underwater swimming without any more breathing equipment than a snorkel".

What is another word for skin diving?

Close synonyms include skin-dive. 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 diving a common word?

skin diving 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.