A person who dives into water from a high platform as a sport (officially from a height of 20 metres for women and 27 metres for men)
the bravery of these high divers very rarely gets the respect that is due
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We visited them in Panama City, Florida, and learned all about high divers.
Our high diver witnesses a shooting, and decides to hush his mouth.
A rotoscopically animated high diver jumps repeatedly into midair against a purplish black background, in a glittering shower of light.
Rolling and tumbling like a clumsy high diver, he plunged towards the Thames.
He competed professionally as a high diver before realizing that shallow diving offered him the chance to get into the record books.
He first saw high divers at an amusement park near his home in San Diego when he was 11.
His latest novel features a high diver, a con artist, roughneck criminals, and a Civil War reenactment.
Found when drunk, I was an excellent high diver.
You can always spot novice high divers, I'm told, by the fact they are wearing seven pairs of swimming trunks in a vain bid to hold everything in place.
She spent a few decades as a professional high diver, plunging from towers 30 metres above the water.