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Parachuting

The Wikipedia website defines skydiving or parachuting as "an activity involving the breaking of a free-fall from a height using a parachute."

Today skydiving is performed in at least four different categories: recreational activity; competitive sport; military; and forest firefighters.

The first recorded skydiving event started in 1797 with a descent by André-Jacques Garnerin from a balloon. Skydiving competitions began in the 1930s, and in 1951 became an international sport. Skydiving was used in WWI and WWII and the military since the early 1900s.