parachutist

English

Etymology

From parachute +‎ -ist.

Noun

parachutist (plural parachutists)

1. Someone who jumps from an aircraft using a parachute, especially as a sport.
   • 1996, Joe Tomlinson, The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports, Carlton Books, →ISBN, page 12:

     If any of the extreme sports can be considered truly high risk, then B.A.S.E. Jumping is that sport. […] Modern B.A.S.E. jumping is believed to have started in 1978, where daring parachutists first began jumping off of El Capitan, a 3,000 foot (915m) cliff high above Yosemite National Park.

   • 2002, Eric Anderson, The Man Who Cried Orange, page 239:

     I waited and he came to the point: he wanted me simply to talk to a patient he had inherited, a sports parachutist who had Roman Candled into a tree and broken and disarticulated his back.

   • 2022, Chris Pratt, Four Brothers in the Pacific War:

     Some hit the rocky outcrops
     Some fell into the sea
     Some even 'Roman Candled'
     (A parachutist I would never be)

Related terms

• parachuting
• parachute

Translations

parachute user

• Albanian: parashutist (sq) m
• Arabic: مِظَلِّيّ m (miẓalliyy)
• Armenian: պարաշյուտիստ (hy) (parašyutist)
• Azerbaijani: paraşütçü
• Belarusian: парашуты́ст m (parašutýst), парашуты́стка f (parašutýstka)
• Bulgarian: парашути́ст (bg) m (parašutíst), парашути́стка f (parašutístka)
• Catalan: paracaigudista m or f
• Czech: parašutista (cs) m, parašutistka f, výsadkář m, výsadkářka f
• Danish: faldskærmsudspringer c
• Dutch: parachutist (nl) m, parachutiste (nl) f
• Estonian: parašütist, langevarjur
• Finnish: laskuvarjohyppääjä (fi)
• French: parachutiste (fr) m or f
• Galician: paracaidista (gl) m or f
• Georgian: პარაშუტისტი (ka) (ṗarašuṭisṭi)
• German: Fallschirmspringer (de) m, Fallschirmspringerin (de) f
• Greek: αλεξιπτωτιστής (el) m (alexiptotistís)
• Hungarian: ejtőernyős (hu)
• Icelandic: fallhlífarstökkvari m
• Italian: paracadutista (it) m or f
• Kazakh: парашютші (paraşütşı), парашютпен секіруші (paraşütpen sekıruşı)
• Kyrgyz: парашютист (paraşyutist)
• Latvian: izpletņlēcējs m
• Lithuanian: parašiutininkas m
• Macedonian: падо́бранец m (padóbranec), падо́бранка f (padóbranka)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шүхэрчин (mn) (šüxerčin)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fallskjermhopper (no) m

• Persian: چترباز (fa) (čatrbâz), پراشوتیست (parâšutist) (Dari)
• Polish: spadochroniarz (pl) m, spadochroniarka f
• Portuguese: paraquedista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: parașutist (ro) m, parașutistă (ro) f
• Russian: парашюти́ст (ru) m (parašutíst), парашюти́стка (ru) f (parašutístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: падобра́нац m, падо̀бра̄нка f

  Roman: padobránac (sh) m, padòbrānka (sh) f

• Slovak: parašutista m, parašutistka f, výsadkár m, výsadkárka f
• Spanish: paracaidista (es) m or f
• Swedish: fallskärmshoppare (sv) c
• Tajik: парашютчӣ (parašyutči)
• Thai: พลร่ม (pon-lá-rôm), นักกระโดดร่ม (nák-grà-dòot-rôm)
• Turkish: paraşütçü (tr)
• Turkmen: paraşutçy
• Ukrainian: парашути́ст m (parašutýst), парашути́стка f (parašutýstka)
• Uzbek: parashyutchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: người nhảy dù
• West Frisian: parasjutist

See also

• skydiver

Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed. Equivalent to parachute +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaː.raː.ʃyˈtɪst/

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧chu‧tist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

parachutist m (plural parachutisten, diminutive parachutistje n, feminine parachutiste)

1. parachutist