How to Use wingsuit in a Sentence

wingsuit

noun
  • Uh, it's called an indoor wingsuit tunnel.
    — Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Then, dive down toward the ground and deploy your wingsuit to capture that speed.
    — WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Hawton was wearing a jumpsuit with webbing, called a wingsuit, the report said.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Loose fabric increases drag and can even generate lift, much like a wingsuit worn by skydivers.
    — Amy Pope, The Conversation, 2 Feb. 2026
  • The campaign, and Endgame, will feature some fun bells and whistles like grappling hook traversal and wingsuits.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Being the crew aboard the newest vessel in that line must be as intimidating as, well, wingsuit flying.
    — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Alexey is also a world champion wingsuit pilot.
    — Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The only way to experience the canyon more directly would have been to strap on a wingsuit and fling yourself off the veranda to fly with the ravens.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The sports suspended include mountain and desert trail running, wingsuit flying and ultra-long distance races, the statement said.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 3 June 2021
  • The debut trailer shows off a beautiful world where players soar through forests, mountains, and towns utilizing something like wingsuit flying.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 26 Apr. 2023
  • But there’s never been a foil like the one beneath Red Bull athlete Peter Salzmann’s wingsuit.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Well, champion wingsuit pilot and quantum physicist, Alexey Galda knows a lot about it.
    — Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Besides wingsuit flying and skydiving, Wall raced cars and motorcycles and was a big air snowboarder.
    — Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
  • You’re given a whole toolbox of abilities like climbing any surface, wingsuit gliding across the map, and taking cover behind objects.
    — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The influential climber died in 2015 in Yosemite Valley during a wingsuit flight gone wrong.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 13 Mar. 2026
  • After his death while attempting a wingsuit flight in 2015, his friends began putting together footage that paints a portrait of a complex man.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Lately, his efforts had been directed at BASE jumping and wingsuit flying.
    — Tim Sohn, Outside Online, 20 May 2015
  • On May 16, 2015, the famous climber and BASE jumper fell to his death after a wingsuit flight in Yosemite.
    — Abigail Wise, Outside, 27 Mar. 2026
  • English is a professional wingsuit pilot and BASE jumper whose content has been featured by GoPro.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The year after his procedure, Moody helped break a national record for participating in the largest group of people to skydive together while wearing wingsuits, those getups that turn people into flying squirrels.
    — Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2024
  • National sports authorities last week suspended all trail running races in China, as well as other extreme sports events such as ultradistance running and wingsuit flying, saying better regulation was needed.
    — Wenxin Fan, WSJ, 10 June 2021
  • For years, Dean Potter stood atop the climbing world, attaining a mystique as a rebellious spirit who carved his own path up mountains and into the sky — through BASE jumping and wingsuit flying.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • These mountain bikers are in the conversation with big wave surfers, big mountain skiers and snowboarders, BASE jumpers, wingsuit pilots, speed flyers, and the like as people who are pushing the limits of what's possible in human performance.
    — Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The Austrian and another wingsuit jumper, Andreas Podlipnik, developed six airfoil prototypes over six years, testing them at an indoor wind tunnel in Stockholm, before deciding on one that would be optimal—at least theoretically—for the wingsuit.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2024

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