Longman Dictionary English From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Other sportsparascendingpar‧as‧cend‧ing /ˈpærəˌsendɪŋ/ noun [uncountable] DSOa sport in which you wear a parachute, and are pulled along by a car so that you go up into the sky and float back down to the ground ldoceonline.com