Thesaurus results for 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

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Recent Examples of winging 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

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The police command spokesman for Nangarhar province, Said Tayyeb Hammad, said that anti-aircraft missiles were used from the provincial capital, Jalalabad, and surrounding areas on Pakistani fighter jets flying overhead Sunday morning.

— ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN, Arkansas Online, 2 Mar. 2026
British Airways, for instance, says customers flying between London Heathrow and Abu Dhabi, Amman, Bahrain, Doha, Dubai or Tel Aviv up to March 15 can change their flight date free of charge to travel on or before March 29, while those travelling up to March 8 may also request a full refund.

— Karla Cripps, CNN Money, 2 Mar. 2026