hang glider

hang glider

noun
a kitelike glider consisting of a V-shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.

Origin:
1925–30
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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WordNet
hang glider

noun
1. a rider of a hang glider 
2. a glider resembling a large kite; the rider hangs from it while descending from a height 
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