Synonyms of winging

winging

verb

present participle of wing

as in flying

to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings

watched the flocks of birds as they winged southward for the winter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• flying
• hovering
• gliding
• sailing
• floating
• planing
• soaring
• drifting
• darting
• fluttering
• aviating
• flitting
• wafting
• coasting
• sweeping
• hanging
• cruising
• orbiting
• rocketing
• jetting
• helicoptering
• stooping
• catapulting
• diving

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of winging

The color was also gently smudged below her lower lashes, winging ever so faintly upward at the outer corner. — Marci Robin, Allure, 20 July 2026

Her direction here wisely emphasizes the actors, and possibly overdoes it with the mirrors — lotta symbolically reflective surfaces and isolating frames within frames — but there’s never the sensation that the person behind the camera is winging it. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2026

In 2014, the Spurs won the championship by winging the ball from player to player, keeping it always a few inches ahead of the Miami Heat’s quick, aggressive defense. — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 7 June 2026

The most common misalignments are scapular winging, in which the shoulder blades stick out from your back like wings, and forward tilting, where the shoulders round forward. — Dana Santas, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025

King commanding the stage with inventive conflagrations, fleet unison fingerwork by Collier and Philion, Rogers-Kaufman offering solos both cerebral and thrilling, and Damien winging through long features with the agility of a sparrow. — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025

Starting in the 1800s as a series of trails winging through forests and connecting the logging and fishing communities, the modern world brought roads with it for horses and wagons, the automobile, school buses, and you. — Josh Max, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025