How to Use free diving in a Sentence

free diving

noun
  • With near-perfect conditions year-round, this might just be free diving at its best.
    Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2025
  • Yeah, so growing up, surfing and swimming, and then also free diving.
    Outside Online, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In Japan, the ama have been free diving along the Ise-Shima Peninsula for thousands of years.
    Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2018
  • At a certain point in history, physiologists believed that the human lung would collapse under water pressure at a depth around 30m, making deeper free diving impossible.
    Big Think, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Today the designation of waterman or -woman is bestowed upon ocean connoisseurs who excel at paddling, free diving, surfing, and navigation, and big-wave athlete Kai Lenny is one of those carrying on this legacy.
    Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026

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