Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet SPELUNKING

Definition av SPELUNKING

1. böjningsform av spelunk
2. presensparticip av spelunk

Exempel på hur man kan använda SPELUNKING i en mening

• Caving, also known as spelunking (United States and Canada) and potholing (United Kingdom and Ireland), is the recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems (as distinguished from show caves).
• The term speleology is also sometimes applied to the recreational activity of exploring caves, but this is more properly known as caving, potholing (British English), or spelunking (United States and Canadian English).
• Many of the valley's surrounding hills are dotted with caves which may be explored by visitors and spelunking has become another popular activity in the province (a particularly interesting cave is the Cueva de los Portales, beside the Río Caiguanabo, where Che Guevara set up his staff headquarters and dormitory as commander of the Western Army during the Cuban Missile Crisis).
• Available or popular sports in or around Beiuș are: fresh water fishing (trout, catfish, carp, barbel, chub, dace, and at least a dozen other edible species), speleology (spelunking), soccer (Sunday soccer is a local ritual for all ages), skiing, snowboarding, sledding, tennis, hiking, camping, backpacking, and rock climbing.
• In Ludvig Holberg's 1741 novel Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum (Niels Klim's Underground Travels), Nicolai Klim falls through a cave while spelunking and spends several years living on both a smaller globe within and the inside of the outer shell.
• He is an honorary member of the local Basque population, and his best friend among them is Beñat Le Cagot, a truculent Basque nationalist and bard, with whom he shares an immense love for freedom and an addiction to spelunking.
• They echoed Baroque Tenebrist paintings and were among his most abstract and least figurative works to date, with largely implied forms—Punchinello among family, in bacchanals with other men disrobing and rolling around—emerging out of nocturnal seaside bonfire scenes that Webb studied firsthand by sketching direct paintings on the beach with a spelunking light strapped to his forehead.

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