FLIGHT Synonyms

• the performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft

• the theory and practice of navigation through air or space

• accomplishment of an objective

• the act of arriving at a certain place

• someone who arrives (or has arrived)

• the aggregation of a country's military aircraft

• the operation of aircraft to provide transportation

• the art of operating aircraft

• travel via aircraft

• the act of departing

• a variation that deviates from the standard or norm

• euphemistic expressions for death

• a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant

• the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it

• the activity of flying a glider

• move smoothly and effortlessly

• fly in or as if in a glider plane

• cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly

• the act of traveling from one place to another

• undertake a journey or trip

• travel upon or across

• an intermediate platform in a staircase

• structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods

• the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface)

• the act of coming to land after a voyage

• the act of rising upward into the air

• rise rapidly

• fly by means of a hang glider

• fly upwards or high in the sky

• go or move upward

• fly a plane without an engine

• a departure; especially of airplanes

• the initial ascent of an airplane as it becomes airborne

• a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way

• humorous or satirical mimicry

• a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods

• the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966

• the act of moving something from one location to another

• the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance

• the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials

• the act of expelling a person from their native land

• a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)

• a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs

• an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall

• an exciting or stimulating experience

• a catch mechanism that acts as a switch

• a light or nimble tread

• an unintentional but embarrassing blunder

• miss a step and fall or nearly fall

• cause to stumble

• make a trip for pleasure

• put in motion or move to act

• get high, stoned, or drugged

• an act of traveling by water

• a journey to some distant place

• travel on water propelled by wind or by other means

• travel via aircraft

• the act of escaping physically

• an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy

• nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

• an avoidance of danger or difficulty

• a means or way of escaping

• a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild

• the discharge of a fluid from some container

• a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level

• run away from confinement

• fail to experience

• escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action

• be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by

• remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion

• flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

• issue or leak, as from a small opening

• feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight

• decorate with feathers

• grow feathers

• the path followed by an object moving through space

• a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next

• a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next