Adventure Sports Lingo

2 words in this vocabulary list

verb to leave or move quickly, often in a hurry or with urgency

  • The suspect decided to hightail it out of town before the authorities arrived.
  • Let's hightail out of here before it starts raining!
  • We need to hightail it to the party before all the food is gone.
  • She always hightails it to the nearest coffee shop when she needs a break from work.

noun a person who participates in the extreme sport of wingsuit flying, in which a special jumpsuit with fabric between the limbs allows for gliding through the air

  • The wingsuiter carefully packed their parachute before jumping off the cliff.
  • I heard that wingsuiter dude is going to attempt a new record jump this weekend.
  • That wingsuiter is totally fearless, man.
  • She felt like a wingsuiter navigating through the challenges of starting her own business.