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Definition of flying

adjective:

• moving swiftly; "fast-flying planes", "played the difficult passage with flying fingers". Synonyms: fast-flying.
• hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit", "took a flying glance at the book", "a quick inspection", "a fast visit". Synonyms: fast, quick.

noun:

• an instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an exciting adventure for him". Synonyms: flight.

verb:

• travel through the air; be airborne; "Man cannot fly". Synonyms: fly, wing.
• move quickly or suddenly; "He flew about the place". Synonyms: fly.
• operate an airplane; "The pilot flew to Cuba". Synonyms: aviate, fly, pilot.
• transport by aeroplane; "We fly flowers from the Caribbean to North America". Synonyms: fly.
• cause to fly or float; "fly a kite". Synonyms: fly.
• be dispersed or disseminated; "Rumors and accusations are flying". Synonyms: fly.
• change quickly from one emotional state to another; "fly into a rage". Synonyms: fly.
• pass away rapidly; "Time flies like an arrow", "Time fleeing beneath him". Synonyms: fell, fly, vanish.
• travel in an airplane; "she is flying to Cincinnati tonight", "Are we driving or flying?". Synonyms: fly.
• display in the air or cause to float; "fly a kite", "All nations fly their flags in front of the U.N.". Synonyms: fly.
• run away quickly; "He threw down his gun and fled". Synonyms: flee, fly, take flight.
• travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft; "Lindbergh was the first to fly the Atlantic". Synonyms: fly.
• hit a fly. Synonyms: fly.
• decrease rapidly and disappear; "the money vanished in las Vegas", "all my stock assets have vaporized". Synonyms: fly, vanish, vaporize.

Related words

abscond, absquatulate, acrobatics, aerobatics, airlift, balloon, ballooning, bolt, break, buzz, decamp, defect, desert, elope, escape, flight, flyover, flypast, glide, gliding, hedgehop, hover, hydroplane, jet, kite, lift, overflight, pass, rack, sailing, sailplaning, seaplane, soar, soaring, solo, sortie, stampede, stunting.

Words nearby

fling, frying, lying.

Rhymes with

buying, crying, dyeing, dying, frying, lying, overlying, prying, spying, supplying, trying, tying, underlying, undying.