spelunker
IPA: spʌɫˈʌŋkɝ
noun
- (Canada, US) One who explores caves; one who spelunks.
- (derogatory) An amateur or inadequately prepared caver.
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Examples of "spelunker" in Sentences
- A spelunker found the new cave.
- The spelunker has died in the cave.
- Spelunkers are divided into six groups.
- His dad used to be a spelunker and his mom a housewife.
- However, I'm an avid traveller, mountaineer and spelunker.
- James is an amateur spelunker and a certified scuba diver.
- Beppo Occhialini was an avid spelunker and mountain climber.
- He is credited with coining the term spelunker in the 1940s.
- The term "spelunker" was abandoned sometime in the late 1950s.
- Knots can save a spelunker from finding himself buried under rock.
- He was also an ardent spelunker and the author of Cave Exploration.
- Michoacán's topography is ideal for the professional and amateur spelunker.
- My husband called the cat spelunker, saying, What do you think, little spelunker?
- The $20 ticket also includes a tour of the tunnel, and a civic history lesson, from " urban spelunker " Bob Diamond.
- Among serious cavers, "spelunker" has come to mean "person who goes underground without the proper equipment or training".
- Cardinals and doves develop their melody progressively caught in beat/heart echoes, as with spelunker canaries fluting noxious gas
- Never, ever, have I heard anyone speak of himself as a "spelunker," and the thought that someone might be about to spelunk is droll.
- LOL you are nothing more then a anal spelunker. and it looks like while Shara was in the green room the make-up person must have printed the wrong answers to the softball questions on her palm.
- Carl, a reckless billionaire adventurer, has financed an expedition by an expert spelunker and diver named Frank McGuire Richard Roxburgh, to chart the unexplored portions of Esa'ala and discover a previously uncharted route through Esa'ala and back to the ocean coast.