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How to pronounce spelunker in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms potholer, spelaeologist, speleologist
Type of adventurer, explorer
Derivation spelunk

Examples of spelunker

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Your favorite spelunker into all things Penn State has returned from an extended road trip.
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He's a thriller writer who moonlights as a spelunker and scuba diver.
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Spelunker starts OK, but I've so far been unable to actually play it.
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At first Hajee expected to see villagers strap the POD lights to their foreheads, spelunker style.
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Knots can save a spelunker from finding himself buried under rock.
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On one side of the world was American spelunker Bill Stone.
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The 6-foot-tall, 190-pound spelunker got stuck with his head at an angle below his feet about 9 p.m. MST Tuesday.
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Not everyone is a natural spelunker, however.
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To help ensure this ultra-clean condition, engineers enlisted the help of an undergraduate student who is a spelunker.
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More examples
  • Potholer: a person who explores caves
  • Spelunker is a video game for the Atari 8-bit computers and ported to the Commodore 64, arcade, Nintendo Entertainment System and MSX computers, developed by Tim Martin and MicroGraphicImage. ...
  • Caving u2014 also traditionally known as spelunking in the United States and Canada and potholing in the United Kingdom and Ireland u2014 is the recreational pastime of exploring wild (generally non-commercial) cave systems. In contrast, speleology is the scientific study of caves and the cave environment.