spelunker

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Indeed, Sudjic suggests that Hácha experienced the building "like a spelunker, moving from one giant underground cavern to another, never sure exactly where he would find himself, or what he would have to confront next, as an intimidating and bewildering sequence of spaces unfolded in front of him."

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  • LaRue was an ardent spelunker, coin collector, and enjoyed traveling. —  Omni: Fall 1995
  • Weaver became an active caver (spelunker) at the age of sixteen. —  Lake News Online Homepage RSS
  • She moves at such a pace that she makes the original Lara look like an amateur spelunker, and experienced players will be able to scale the environments in a much more fluid manner than before. —  GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
  • An avid spelunker, Rollins added his experience caving to his book.
  • By submerging oneself completely in water and holding a large glass jar of air inverted over one's head, a spelunker could be carried along by the current and cushioned by the water, slowly readjust to a different time Through such discoveries, the academy was able to establish laboratories in moderate fast-time areas, where a month of experimentation could occur in a week The most visible effect of these accelerated laboratories was the rapid proliferation of Malzra's falcon attackers. —  J
 

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  1. From obsolete spelunk, cave, from Middle English, from Old French spelunque, from Latin spēlunca, from Greek spēlunx.
 

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