Aeronautics. any of certain springs or elastic tension devices, as the springs attached to movable controls of aircraft to facilitate their manipulation.
Research has shown that they are likelier to be risk-takers—skydivers and bungee jumpers as opposed to skiers and polo players.
A bungee system straps down any sweat- or rain-soaked layers that need to air out.
My chair, which uses bungee cables as the back support and which I purchased at a steep discount from a Target in Florida, has served me well for close to a decade.
Even more luckily, that bungee cord was short enough to keep it from crashing.
Even a brief dive—a bungee jump, if you will—would be scary indeed.
Harvey: Things like bungee-jumping or skydiving scare me, but not because of the height.