flying

flying
adj
1. soaring, sailing, zooming, cruising, coasting, sweeping, skimming; gliding, planing, volplaning, sailplaning; darting, flitting, flirting, hopping; taking wing, winging, winging one's way, taking off, taking to the air; airborne, volant, volitant, volita-tional.
2. floating, hovering, drifting, hanging; fluttering, flapping, waving, wavering, undulating, tossing, wagging; flowing, streaming, blowing.
3. fast, rapid, swift, fleet, mercurial; quick, speedy, express, double-quick, winged; agile, nimble, Brit. Sl. fly.
4. hasty, hurried, rushed; brief, fleeting, passing, fading; transitory, transient, momentary, short-lived, ephemeral, temporary, impermanent; here today, gone tomorrow; fly-by-night; evanescent, vanishing, disappearing.
5. fleeing, bolting, running, eloping, escaping; retreating, deserting, withdrawing, abandoning, decamping; running away, taking or making flight, fugitive.
n
6. flight, aviation, volitation, Rare. volation.

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