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base jumping
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base jumping
n
(Individual Sports & Recreations / Extreme Sports) a sport in which a participant parachutes from any of a variety of fixed objects such as high buildings, cliffs, etc.
[b(uilding), a(ntennae), s(pan, and) e(arthbound object)]


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He added: "When I announced to my mum I was going to try basejumping, she just shrugged and said that sounds like something you would want to do.
Basejumping consists of those people who long for the thrill of free-falling from very tall places with no bungee, no water below and no fixed apparatus above to slow their descent.
Yno bydd 'Fearless Felix' yn neidio o gopa'r twr mewn camp anghyfreithlon, basejumping, sy'n golygu neidio a phlymio cyn agor parasiwt ar yr eiliad olaf er mwyn glanio ar y ddaear.
 
 
 
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