wingsuit

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US/ˈwɪŋˌsut/

noun

A special jumpsuit, used in extreme sports like a parachute, which adds surface area to the wearer's body to create lift.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounwingsuit (plural wingsuits)

plural wingsuits

  1. aeronauticsA special jumpsuit, used in extreme sports like a parachute, which adds surface area to the wearer's body to create lift.
    1 more example

    Rock climbers Dean Potter and Graham Hunt were wearing wingsuits when they leaped off Taft Point at Yosemite National Park in May and died. Park officials said their parachutes never deployed. […] Strange acknowledged the dangers of wingsuit BASE jumping on his social media accounts and mourned the deaths of fellow jumpers.

    2015 October 2, Veronica Rocha, “BASE jumper Johnny Strange dies in wingsuit jump in Swiss Alps”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2016

Origin

  1. Englishwing
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sekʷ-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*sékʷetor
  4. Proto-Italic*sekʷōr
  5. Vulgar Latinsequor, sequi
  6. Vulgar Latin*sequere
  7. Vulgar Latin*sequita
  8. Old Frenchsiute
  9. Anglo-Normansuite
  10. Middle Englishsute
  11. Englishsuit
  12. Englishwingsuit

From wing + suit.

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Translations

Finnish liitopuku
  • liitopukutype of jumpsuit
French combinaison ailée
  • combinaison ailéetype of jumpsuit
Spanish wingsuit
  • wingsuittype of jumpsuit
Cite this entry
APA

wingsuit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wingsuit

MLA

“wingsuit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wingsuit. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wingsuit,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wingsuit.

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