What is "skydiver"

n. Someone who skydives as a sport.

n. a person who jumps from a plane and performs various gymnastic maneuvers before pulling the parachute cord

A skydiver is a person who engages in the sport of parachuting.

It may also refer to:

• Skydiver (ride), an amusement ride designed and manufactured by Chance Rides
• Skydiver (submarine), a futuristic submarine featured in the TV series UFO
• The Skydivers, a 1963 film by Coleman Francis
• Sky Diver, a 1978 arcade game, later ported to Atari 2600
• Sky Diving (video game), a 2008 video game for the PlayStation 3

Skydiver was a fictional futuristic submarine featured in Gerry Anderson’s TV series UFO, operated by the secretive SHADO organisation as part of Earth's defences against alien aggressors.

Like many Anderson vehicles, Skydiver was designed by Derek Meddings. It could be distinguished from a conventional submarine by its prominent conning tower and by the supersonic twin-engined interceptor fighter that replaced the bow section.

An unspecified number of Skydivers (at least four) patrolled Earth's oceans. Each Skydiver was numbered and the composite sections were referred to as Sky or Diver 1, 2, 3 etc. Skydiver 1 was most frequently seen in the course of the series, and if a generic reference was made to 'Skydiver' (e.g. the command 'put Skydiver on alert') then this was the one that tended to be referred to. However, the ill-fated Skydiver 3 was seen briefly in the episode "The Psychobombs", and in the same episode references were made to Sky 4.

The Skydiver is an amusement ride produced from 1965 to 1987 by Chance Rides, an American manufacturer based in Wichita, Kansas.

Skydiver cars are mounted on a circular frame – like a Ferris wheel – that spin on a front-back axis similar to a barrel roll. As the ride required two trailers to transport, it was less popular than the Zipper, a similar but smaller ride also manufactured by Chance Rides.