descent vs parachuting

descent and parachuting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
descent	Yes	No	No	No
parachuting	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, parachuting is a hyponym of descent; that is, parachuting is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than descent:

Other hyponyms of descent include jump, dive, nose dive, nosedive, abseil, rappel, swoop, crash dive, drop, collapse, flop.

descent (noun)	parachuting (noun)
the act of changing your location in a downward direction	descent with a parachute
properties attributable to your ancestry
a movement downward
the hereditary derivation of an individual
a downward slope or bend
the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors