What does paraglider mean?
Word: Paraglider
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Paraglider means a person who flies through the air under a light fabric wing after running off a hill or slope; the word can also mean the wing itself.
Word origin: Formed in the 1980s, on the pattern of parachute, as the sport grew up in the French Alps.
How do you spell paraglider?
Syllables: par - a - glid - er
Tricky part: There is only one r near the start: parraglider, with rr as in parrot, is the usual slip.
Watch out for: parraglider, paraglidar
Memory tip: Take the para of parachute and keep its single r.
Paraglider in a sentence
Example 1: A bright red paraglider circled above the hills of Bir in Himachal Pradesh.
Example 2: The paraglider waited for the wind to turn before running off the slope.
Example 3: My aunt bought a new paraglider wing before the season began.
Fun Fact
Bir Billing in Himachal Pradesh is one of the best-known flying sites in Asia and hosted a round of the sport's World Cup in 2015.
Practise the CREST Way
Spellacadabra
Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:
paragli___er
a) dt
b) t
c) dd
d) d
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d) d. Only one d comes before the er.
Jumble Tumble
What is the meaning of the word that can be formed from the given letters?
rarepigdal
a) someone carried aloft by warm air under an engine-free wing
b) someone who dives deep wearing breathing equipment
c) someone who climbs steep rock with ropes
d) someone who sails a small boat alone
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a) someone carried aloft by warm air under an engine-free wing. The ten letters rebuild the word for a flier under a cloth wing.
Word Tally
How many words are misspelt in the given sentence?
The paraglider drifted over the tea gardens and landed gentley on a feild near the monastry.
a) 3
b) 0
c) 2
d) 1
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a) 3. Gently has no e, field puts i before e, and monastery needs its e: three errors.
Sound Check
In which word is 'g' pronounced differently?
a) ginger
b) glacier
c) gorilla
d) paraglider
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a) ginger. Ginger has the soft g of jam; paraglider, gorilla and glacier have the hard g of go.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why do paragliders often fly over hills on sunny afternoons?
a) the air is much thinner at noon
b) warm rising air helps keep them up
c) the sun dries their wings
d) the hills block out all the wind
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b) warm rising air helps keep them up
2. Where would you most likely see a paraglider?
a) inside a mine
b) above hills and valleys
c) under the sea
d) on a railway track
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b) above hills and valleys
