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1. An athletic competition that involves diving into water
   - diving event
    
2. Skin diving with scuba apparatus
   - scuba diving

1. Swim under water
   "the children enjoyed diving and looking for shells"
    
2. Drop steeply
   "the stock market dived";
   - plunge, plunk
    
3. (water sport) plunge into water
   "I was afraid to dive from the board into the pool"
    
4. (sports) deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting the opponent penalized

Derived forms: divings

Type of: come down, descend, fall, go down, match, sink, skin diving, skin-dive, submerge, submerse, swim

Part of: swim meet, swimming meet

Encyclopedia: Diving, Safety, Security, Search and Rescue Team