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What do these words have in common?
Swan
Cannon
Can
Pencil
Belly
Swan
Cannon
Can
Pencil
Belly
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They are all the first words of types of dives into the water.Swan Dive
Cannon Ball
Can Opener
Pencil Dive
Belly Flop
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Got four out of five I've never heard of pencil dive??
Got four out of five I've never heard of pencil dive??
Good teaser. Oh, how those belly flops sting! Ouch!
I loved the swimming lesson !
fun...but way too easy... saying look at the title made it a dead giveaway...but it still was good.
i like this teaser! i didn't get it though! i feel stupid
This teaser was ok. A lot of people wouldn't get it if they didn't know a lot about swimming. I still thought it was good though!
I got four of them pretty quickly. But I gotta admit, I've never heard of the pencil dive (and i was a diver on the swim team in college.) Is "Pencil dive" a regional or local name for a dive? I did enjoy it. Keep 'em coming!
Did not know about that... something new to add to the knowledge bank... Good one !
Never heard of pencil dive or can opener, but the rest were easy.
You tricked me on that one...
I would guess a "pencil" dive, would be when you hit the water completely straight, like a pencil; and cut through the water without a splash.
It took me a minute, but I finally decided they were all dives.
It took me a minute, but I finally decided they were all dives.
would never have figured this one out without the hint. Very good
I have to agree with jimbooth019A. Good teaser, enjoyed it. Thanks for posting.
Picking nits: Cannon Ball and Can Opener are "jumps", where you go in feet first. At no point are you moving towards the water head first. Are they still "dives"?
Love it. I didnt get it, and i feel stupid . I love swimming...
As I was never on the dive team, I don't know for sure, but I think you can still qualify both as dives; if you are going to be picky about the hing, well then technically, you NEVER hit the water head first, you go in ARMS/HANDS first. I also had never heard of a pencil dive, but assumed as did a previous poster what it was. If that qualifies as a dive (and there are 1000s of hits on google for it) then so should the other two.
Karen, there are plenty of official dives where the entry is feet first. a belly flop is actually a failed dive but still in the dive category. pretty fun
A 'sailor dive' is actually head-first...a pencil dive is just jumping in standing straight up & down - about as much a 'dive' as a cannon ball is.
Pencil dive is a stretch. Swan Dive or "layout" is the only competitive dive. Maybe "names of recreational stunts off of a diving board"?
source: All-American diver.
source: All-American diver.
I liked this one. Can someone tell me what a swan dive is? Also, can someone tell me what a can openner is?
Can opener and Pencil must be very obscure names. Even though the other three made the category obvious, I couldn't make any sense of those two.
I would never have gotten it as I never heard of can opener or pencil. If you do not go in head first it is not a dive anyhow. My dictionary told me so. Disagree if you want as that is you prerogative, but a dive is a dive into water head first.
While I was nevwe a diver, the HS I went to won the provincial diving and swimming titles or something like 25 years in a row. so I went to plenty of diving competitions. I choose some of these (namely cannonball and pencil dive) being labeled "dives".
Those are as much a dive as rolling the ball between your legs is bowling, or throwing the ball underhand is playing basketball. Sure, people do it it's not meant qualifies as a dive.
as to the teaser itself, the hints definitely gave it away.
Those are as much a dive as rolling the ball between your legs is bowling, or throwing the ball underhand is playing basketball. Sure, people do it it's not meant qualifies as a dive.
as to the teaser itself, the hints definitely gave it away.
a little too easy
I got it, and I'd never even heard of two of them!
fun, entertaining and easy teaser; I got it from the title.
Not easy for me. There is no way I'd have gotten it without considering the title. I have also never heard of pencil dive or can opener. I can imagine the pencil dive., but what is a can opener? Is it another name for a jackknife?
Regardless of what I've heard of, I enjoyed the teaser. If some find it easy, and some don't, it must be perfect.
Regardless of what I've heard of, I enjoyed the teaser. If some find it easy, and some don't, it must be perfect.
I got it from the title before I looked at the hint, because I couldn't figure out what the connection could be from the start. I never heard of the pencil dive either. Thought it was a good teaser though.
Easy, especially b/c of the title, but still fun. I liked it.
Don't know a lot about dives, but I guessed it was the common denominator.
The title gave it away; not cryptic enough?
The title gave it away; not cryptic enough?
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