Skydiving is an exhilarating sport that involves jumping out of an airplane at high altitudes. It requires courage, skill, and a sense of adventure. Skydivers experience the thrill of free-falling through the air before deploying their parachutes. The sport poses many challenges, which make it perfect for riddles and brain teasers.
Here are 57 riddles about skydiving to test your knowledge and get your mind racing. See if you can figure out the answers before scrolling down. Let’s jump right in!
Skydiving Riddles
1. I am opened in the plane but closed when you jump. What am I?
Answer: The door.
2. I am strapped to your back when you jump. What am I?
Answer: The parachute.
3. I show your altitude and speed during freefall. What am I?
Answer: The altimeter.
4. I record your jump from start to finish. What am I?
Answer: The camera.
5. I help control your freefall speed and stability. What am I?
Answer: The jumpsuit.
6. I am waved to show you are ready to jump. What am I?
Answer: The pilot chute.
7. I connect you to the plane before the jump. What am I?
Answer: The static line.
8. I am a safety device that automatically opens the parachute. What am I?
Answer: The AAD (Automatic Activation Device).
9. I am a formation made by linked skydivers. What am I?
Answer: The star formation.
10. I am a skydiving maneuver involving flips and turns. What am I?
Answer: Freeflying.
11. I am the speed skydivers reach during freefall. What am I?
Answer: Terminal velocity.
12. I am the altitude from which most skydives begin. What am I?
Answer: 10,000 to 15,000 feet.
13. I am the careful positioning of the body during freefall. What am I?
Answer: Bodyflight.
14. I am the updrafts experienced during canopy flight. What am I?
Answer: Thermals.
15. I am the skill of navigating the parachute to a landing zone. What am I?
Answer: Canopy piloting.
16. I am a group skydive with 2 or more people. What am I?
Answer: A formation skydive.
17. I am the sport of skydiving over water. What am I?
Answer: Pond swooping.
18. I am a competitive accuracy landing event. What am I?
Answer: A swoop.
19. I am the practice of releasing the parachute immediately after exiting the plane. What am I?
Answer: Hop and pop.
20. I am a maneuver where the skydiver transitions from vertical to horizontal flight. What am I?
Answer: Tracking.
Tricky Skydiving Riddles
21. The more you have of me, the less you can see. What am I?
Answer: Altitude.
22. I fly without wings and cry without eyes. What am I?
Answer: The wind.
23. I have holes on both sides yet still hold water. What am I?
Answer: A sponge.
24. I am lighter than a feather yet the strongest person can’t hold me for over five minutes. What am I?
Answer: Breath.
25. The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps.
26. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
27. I am an object that is used by many but seen by few. What am I?
Answer: A parachute.
28. I run all around a field yet never move. What am I?
Answer: A fence.
29. What has a head and a tail but no body?
Answer: A coin.
30. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
Funny Skydiving Riddles
31. What do you call a paralyzed skydiver?
Answer: A Para, non-rider.
32. Why are pyramids so narrow at the top?
Answer: They’re always trying to be on point.
33. What do you call a bee who can’t make up its mind?
Answer: A Maybe.
34. How do you organize an outer space party?
Answer: You planet.
35. What kind of shoes do ninjas wear?
Answer: Sneakers.
36. Why couldn’t the skydiver see where he was landing?
Answer: He was in the dark.
37. Why are frogs always happy?
Answer: They just eat what bugs them.
38. Why couldn’t the bicycle stand up?
Answer: It was two tired.
39. What did one elevator say to the other?
Answer: I think I’m coming down with something!
40. What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Answer: A gummy bear.
Hard Skydiving Riddles
41. A skydiver jumped from a plane without a parachute. She came back alive and unharmed. How?
Answer: She was jumping from a grounded plane used for training.
42. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
43. I’m tall when I’m young, short when I’m old. What am I?
Answer: A candle.
44. What belongs to you but others use it more than you?
Answer: Your name.
45. The more there is, the less you see. What could it be?
Answer: Darkness.
46. What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel.
47. What goes up and down but does not move?
Answer: Stairs.
48. What has hands but can’t clap?
Answer: A clock.
49. What has a neck but no head?
Answer: A bottle.
50. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
Answer: Footsteps.
Really Hard Skydiving Riddles
51. Feed me and I live, give me a drink and I die. What am I?
Answer: Fire.
52. What belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.
53. I have cities but no houses, mountains but no trees, water but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.
54. What gets broken without being held?
Answer: A promise.
55. What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?
Answer: A road.
56. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps.
57. What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
Answer: A piano.
Conclusion
How did you enjoy solving these riddles? Skydiving offers many mysteries that can stump even the cleverest riddle lover. Figuring out the answers requires logic, lateral thinking, and a bit of creativity – skills that also come in handy when mastering the sport.
Riddles encourage us to see skydiving equipment, maneuvers, and concepts in new ways. They teach us to think on our feet, prepare for the unexpected, and confront our fears. These are valuable lessons for all areas of life, not just skydiving.
So the next time you find yourself up in the air, high above the ground, remember a few of these riddles. They are sure to keep your mind engaged and give you a fun distraction during the exhilarating freefall.
