parabola

The stone, with the rope trailing it, made a small parabola in the air, and the line, as if with a sigh, fell limply into the river only ninety tails away.

The shortage of shells meant Danylo couldn’t fire his gun from a distance as he would an artillery piece, the round arcing in a parabola.

They interlock, forming a three-dimensional-looking beam comprised of geometric patterns — a rotated hyperbolic parabola .

Among his discoveries was a need to move his takeoff point farther back for higher jumps, so he could change the apex of the parabola shape of his jump to clear the bar.

Seen from the ground, their ephemeral parabolas look like calligraphic brushstrokes.