Dive

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Dive or diving may refer to:

In aquatics:

• Underwater diving, the practice of swimming underwater
• Scuba diving, the practice of swimming underwater with breathing apparatus
• Diving, the sport of jumping head first into a body of water or pool, with an emphasis on acrobatics and/or height of the dive

In music:

• Dive (band), an industrial music band from Belgium
• Dive (Swedish band), an electronic music band from Sweden, and also a 1994 album by the band
• Dive (Sarah Brightman album), a 1993 album by Sarah Brightman
• "Dive (song)", a song by Nirvana
• "DIVE (song)", the first single by J-pop band BeForU, which first appeared in Dance Dance Revolution 5thMIX
• Dive, a song by Christian music artist Steven Curtis Chapman, on his album "Speechless"

In sports:

• Diving (football), faking or exaggeration of an injury, in particular in football (soccer), in order to draw a foul on an opponent or otherwise gain an advantage. Also a well known term in ice hockey, when a player tries to draw a penalty. (In American football, more likely to be called "acting", as in "Give him an Academy Award!")
• Taking a dive, the intentional throwing of a fight in boxing
• In numerous sports, including basketball and baseball, the practice of throwing oneself horizontally into the ground in order to catch or field a ball is known as diving
• In American football, the practice of a ball-carrier propelling himself up and over the line of scrimmage, usually on a very short-yardage down, is called diving

Dive may also refer to:

• In relation to aircraft, it is a maneuver where the nose of the aircraft is pointed vertically down to ground. See dive bomber or a line from the song "The U.S. Air Force (song)"
• Dive can be used generically whenever some quantity (such as a company's stock price) experiences a sudden and swift decline; usually this indicates that the decline is a negative event
• Dive bar, a cheap, dingy drinking establishment
• Dive (film), a film released in 2003, filmed in and taking place in a Washington, D.C. dive bar
• Dive!, a short-lived (1994-99) restaurant founded by Steven Spielberg in Century City, California, notable for its facade in the shape of a submarine
• Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment, a prototype multi-user VR system
• Naam Dayv is another form of the Indian poet Namdev's name
• Dive!, a 2004 video game
• Diving can sometimes be interpreted as internet slang for heavy web browsing, often to obtain specific information. The term was coined by the anime/manga series Ghost in the Shell and referred to entering an internet environment in a similar way to the science fiction movie, The Matrix
• Slang for oral sex

• a grade separated junction on a railway where one line dives under another, such as at Mpika railway station, or flys over another, such as at Sandgate Flyover