"daredevil" is a perfectly acceptable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who is excessively daring or adventuresome, usually in a reckless or potentially dangerous way. For example, "She had a daredevil attitude and tried to convince her friends to bungee jump off a bridge."
Slight, short and shy, Ahmad Samha does not look like a daredevil entrepreneur.
American officials have shown congressmen pictures showing Wang Wei himself, during earlier daredevil exploits.
With its long tradition of warrior prowess, Chechnya became the military base of the "new Islam", and Mr Basaev its military leader.A daredevil hijacker and hostage-taker, Mr Basaev took part in the Russian-backed war against Georgia in 1992-93, and then fought ruthlessly against Russia in the Chechen war of 1994-96.
But the real kings of these roads are the hordes of commuter motorcycles that swarm in and out of the choking traffic at daredevil speed.Asia is home to nearly 80% of the world's 315m motorcycles.
The cult of Equity Heated debate Correction: Spanish banks ReprintsThe idea of "risk-weighted assets" gained prominence after the agreement of the Basel 2 rules on bank capital, which rewarded banks with the most creditworthy borrowers by allowing them to set aside less capital than their more daredevil peers.
When he started out, in mid-October, he could put it down to the usual jitters before a trip, made worse because he had been approached to lead this expedition by two experienced but daredevil Americans, when he had been happily ensconced in a sort of semi-retirement in the "paradise" of Jinja in Uganda, near the source of the Nile.
Powdr Corporation, which owns nine ski areas in America, has a "barn" full of foam pits, trampolines and half-pipes, where people can practise their daredevil jumps.
For the moment it is the daredevil criminal who has the upper hand.
And even if the engineering can be perfected, it remains to be seen how many daredevil billionaires will be willing to spend months cooped up in a metal tube eating freeze-dried food.
In an address on August 14th, the eve of India's independence day, he declared that "it is time that civil society and lawful government asserted their authority and primacy over the daredevil heroes of crime and banditry".
The atmosphere is not unlike that of a golf course: a mix of concentration and blokey relaxation.Graffiti painting is traditionally a daredevil pursuit (see article).
