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What is "hang-glider"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hang-glider
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A hang-glider hovered high up to my right, sailing in lazy circles toward the beach.
▪ A primary headteacher in Kent is an enthusiastic hang-glider at weekends.
▪ He had adapted the parachute design to produce a homemade hang-glider.
▪ She was clinging desperately to the hang-glider.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hang-glider

a type of popular flying device, 1971; see hang (v.) + glide (v.). The activity of hang-gliding is from the same time.

Wiktionary
hang-glider

n. (alternative form of hang glider English)

Usage examples of "hang-glider".

With Max Palmer as partner I rounded a fledgling company to design and build new high-performance hang-gliders: craft with wider spans and nose angles, with tighter sails and more battens to camber the roached trailing edges of the airfoil (to be technical for a moment).