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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
exhilarating
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
experience
▪ He said pillion riding was one of the most exhilarating experiences he knew of.
▪ Brisk fitness walking - aerobic walking - is an exhilarating experience.
▪ Getting out in the open air on a bike can be an exhilarating experience.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I still remember the exhilarating freedom of driving my first car.
▪ Learning to surf is exhausting but exhilarating.
▪ Sky-diving is an exhilarating experience.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Equally exhilarating are the slow circles across the sky that buzzards make on summer days.
▪ I wondered what they were thinking, then pondered on the fineness of the dividing line between exhilarating adventure and irresponsibility.
▪ If you do, bidding can be very exhilarating, and on no account should you bid more than your pre-determined limit.
▪ It was steep and exposed but solid, and the final push for the summit involved some exhilarating scrambling.
▪ Neither of these exhilarating walks, however, rivals Glen Farrar in beauty of surroundings.
▪ The supple interplay of major themes will furnish it with the exhilarating sense of a mind meticulous but free.
▪ This is Mallerstang Edge, providing an exhilarating walk unhindered by walls and fences.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exhilarating

Exhilarating \Ex*hil"a*ra`ting\, a. That exhilarates; cheering; gladdening. -- Ex*hil"a*ra`ting*ly, adv.

Wiktionary
exhilarating
  1. Refreshingly thrilling. v

  2. (present participle of exhilarate English)

WordNet
exhilarating
  1. adj. making lively and cheerful; "the exhilarating effect of mountain air" [syn: stimulating]

  2. making lively and joyful [syn: elating]

Usage examples of "exhilarating".

Ascending current of Eros, the moral freedom Kant offered was absolutely exhilarating to the entire era.

Many nights I dreamt about doing multiple pirouettes and the feeling was incredibly exhilarating.

Indeed, one may doubt if such a thing as happiness is possible without steadily changing conditions involving continually enlarging and exhilarating opportunities.

She was feeling the exhilarating lift of the liquor when she joined Rei for the evening meal.

En revanche, nothing can be more healthy or exhilarating than the air of the tall plateau to the south of the cove.

And even later, after an exhilarating spin in the country, he arrived safe and blithesome at his well-appointed rooms in the Hotel Fulton, ready to remove with good soap and pure aqua the stains of mart and road before calling on Miss Bettina Stokes.

There was a freshness and breeziness, too, and an exhilarating sense of emancipation from all sorts of cares and responsibilities, that almost made us feel that the years we had spent in the close, hot city, toiling and slaving, had been wasted and thrown away.

Unfortunately, Knightsbridge went out of business - but not without first boosting my expectations through the exhilarating prepublication process.

Moving from the Deep South to the exhilarating freedom of Reconstruction Washington, with its thriving black citizenry of statesmen, professionals, and strivers of every persuasion, Cindy experiences firsthand the promise of the new era at its dizzying peak, just before it begins to slip away.

He had a horrid and exhilarating vision that they might part, and Prague itself and its surmounting castle be revealed riding the wind, uprooted and dropping clods and cobblestones as it went west.

We have all experienced the frustration of trying to recapture a fond memory from our childhood, an exhilarating adventure, an expired romance, only to find that it was unrepeatable, simply because that unique set of circumstances could not be reproduced.

Again and again we enjoyed all the exhilarating sensations that such scenes must necessarily inspire, but in attempting a continued description of our progress over these beautiful mountains, I could only tell again of rocks, cedars, laurels, and running streams, of blue heights, and green vallies, yet the continually varying combinations of these objects afforded us unceasing pleasure.

Watching the models hastily dress and undress had been exhilarating: those voluptuous bosoms squeezing into tight bustiers, the pert bottoms wriggling within the confines of satin and leather.

However, a number of catnip seeds sprouted in the pot and burgeoned splendidly, producing plants very different from Earthside catnip but quite as erotically exhilarating to Gustav-Adolf.

Kidney Bend an exhilarating high before they burst onto the sweeping Clearways Curve, whose rough surface makes their machines become unstable and deadly.