helicoptering

verb

present participle of helicopter
as in orbiting

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for helicoptering
  1. orbiting
  2. rocketing
  3. darting
  4. flitting
  5. catapulting
  6. jetting
  7. fluttering
  8. diving
Verb
  • The lunar eclipse also may be visible to Hathaway and the nine other people living off the planet — seven astronauts at the International Space Station and three aboard China’s orbiting outpost.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The lunar eclipse may also be visible to Hathaway and the nine other people living off the planet — seven astronauts at the International Space Station and three aboard China’s orbiting outpost.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of orbiting
Verb
  • Surveillance footage obtained by The News shows the explosion erupting on the building’s second floor, sending glass and other debris rocketing across the street.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Shares have fully recovered from a deep dive early last year, rocketing more than 40% in the past 12 months.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
Definition of rocketing
Verb
  • Chelsea attack with venom; Cole Palmer, Joao Pedro and Morgan Rogers are darting flashes of blue steel.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Other textiles in the house were found in India, Egypt, and Kuwait, where Consuelo bought a Bedouin tent, soon to be installed among the fig, persimmon, and pomegranate trees—and the darting lizards—in the gardens.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of darting
Verb
  • Upon further review of the camera footage, Sam Gough, a park supervisor for the Incline Village General Improvement District, said the light appeared to be just a bug flitting across the lens.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • An airy, not-too-sweet vanilla like Taunt is the perfect encapsulation of a Gemini who’s always flitting from one topic of interest to the next.
    — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 14 July 2026
Definition of flitting
Verb
  • What happened in Hamburg provides a particularly egregious example of such racial terrorism catapulting political triumph.
    — Jacob Ware, The Conversation, 31 July 2026
  • The law was Walker’s signature legislative achievement, catapulting him onto the national political stage and spurring an unsuccessful attempt to recall him from office.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026
Definition of catapulting
Verb
  • And by the looks of the first photos (below), Emily seems to be jetting off to meet her on-again, off-again chef boyfriend Gabriel (Lucas Bravo), picking up where season five left off.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026
  • And the entire team took the field on fumes after jetting across the country and landing early Monday morning following a three-game drubbing in Boston over the weekend.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of jetting
Verb
  • For Arbaeen, the lights inside the shrine and the flags fluttering from its golden dome are switched to red – the color of vengeance.
    — Jane Arraf, NPR, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Some people feel a racing heartbeat or fluttering in their chest.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of fluttering
Verb
  • Musk laid out just how deeply SpaceX is diving into AI during his 29-minute talk, which came a week after SpaceX's first-ever quarterly earnings call as a public company.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Investigators say Simpson objected to another boater anchoring near his spot and then shut off the air supply to a teen who was diving from that boat.
    — Larry Seward, Miami Herald, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of diving
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