stage diving

English

Etymology

stage +‎ diving

Noun

stage diving (countable and uncountable, plural stage divings)

1. The practice of jumping from the stage in a rock concert to be caught and carried aloft by the crowd.
   • 2019, Stefano Barone, Metal, Rap, and Electro in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia:

     Soon metalheads would invade the narrow pit between the stage and seats, often climbing over rows of seats, to start a long series of walls of death, stage divings, crowdsurfing […]

Translations

practice of jumping from the stage on the raised hands of the audience

• Finnish: lavasukellus
• German: Stagediving (de) n
• Swedish: stagediving c, stagedivande n

Verb

stage diving

1. present participle and gerund of stage dive

See also

• crowd surfing