#descent the act of changing your location in a downward direction supertype: human_motion__humanmotion__motion__movement__move the act of changing your location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" subtype: abseil a descent down a nearly vertical surface by using a doubled rope that is coiled around the body and attached to some higher point subtype: parachuting__jump descent with a parachute; "he had done a lot of parachuting in the army" subtype: sky-diving__skydiving performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute subtype: nose_dive__dive a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft subtype: power_dive__powerdive a dive accelerated by both gravity and engine power subtype: swoop a swift descent through the air subtype: crash_dive__crashdive a rapid descent by a submarine subtype: drop the act of dropping something; "they expected the drop would be successful" subtype: flop__collapse the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great flop"
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