swallow dive

1. 1.

   a dive in which the diver arches the back with arms outstretched before entering the water

   Synonymsswan dive

   Broaderdive

Questions about swallow dive

What does swallow dive mean?

swallow dive means "a dive in which the diver arches the back with arms outstretched before entering the water".

What is another word for swallow dive?

Close synonyms include swan 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 swallow dive a common word?

swallow 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.