Thesaurus
flying
Synonyms and Antonyms of flying
- a flying attempt at finishing the work
- that car was flying as it careened down the streets
at speed [chiefly British]
flying
Synonyms and Antonyms of flying
- had never had the slightest fear of flying
Synonyms and Antonyms of flying
- the Wright brothers realized mankind's age-old wish to fly
- you must fly to safety immediately
avoiding, eluding, evading, losing, shunning
decamping, departing, eloping, exiting, going, leaving, moving, pulling out, quitting, sallying (forth), shoving (off), taking off, walking out
bringing off, emancipating, enfranchising, freeing, liberating, loosening, loosing, manumitting, redeeming, releasing, rescuing, springing, unbinding, uncaging, unchaining, unfettering
- flew down the concourse to catch his flight
barreling (or barrelling), belting, blasting, blazing, blowing, bolting, bombing [slang], bowling, breezing, bundling, bustling, buzzing, cannonballing, careening, careering, chasing, coursing, cracking (on), dashing, driving, haring, hastening, highballing, hotfooting (it), humping, hurling, hurrying, hurtling, hustling, hying (or hieing), jetting, jumping, motoring, nipping, pelting, racing, ramming, ripping, rocketing, running, rushing, rustling, scooting, scurrying, scuttling, shooting, speeding, stepping, tearing, traveling (or travelling), trotting, whirling, whisking, zipping, zooming
- no one in the movies ever thinks to fly from the ax murderer and immediately call the police
absconding, clearing out, decamping, eloping, escaping, getting (away), getting out, lamming, lighting out, making off, mizzling [chiefly British], scarpering [British], scatting, scramming, skipping (out), skirring
- the morning mist had flown, and a sparkling sea lay before us
- the familiar "Because I said so!" is a reason that won't fly with most teenagers
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