flying
Syllables: fly·ing/ˈflaɪ.ɪŋ/
flying adjective: that flies or can fly. Also the present participle and gerund of fly.
Adjective
flying (not comparable)
- That flies or can fly.
- flying fox
- a flying rumour
- Synonyms:
- winged
- Antonyms:
- flightless
- Brief or hurried.
- flying visit
- Capable of moving rapidly; highly mobile.
- flying column
- Synonyms:
- winged
- Not secured by yards.
- Capable of foiling.
- Flying ferries are the watercraft of the future!
- Designating a cattle brand consisting of a letter extended on both sides with tilde-like curved lines.
- He brands his cow W (flying W) or — (two-bar).1911, Boys' Life, volume 1, number 1, page 25
- […] some seventy-five cows belonging to William and Bernie with a Flying W […]1972, Willie Newbury Lewis, Tapadero: The Making of a Cowboy, page 154
- Being able to glide through the air.
- flying squirrel
- flying snake
Noun
flying (countable and uncountable, plural flyings)
- An act of flight.
- "Flyings" could vary considerably in complexity and lavishness and could involve an actor or property being either lifted from the stage into the flies above or vice versa. As Colin Visser has observed, flyings and sinkings are both "associated with supernatural manifestations of various kinds" […]1993, John C. Greene, Gladys L. H. Clark, The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745, page 58
- The action or process of sustained motion through the air.
- His seconde hawke wexyd gery
And was with flyenge wery.
She had flowyn so oft,
That on the rode loft
She perkyd her to rest.c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 66–70
- His seconde hawke wexyd gery
- The action of sustained hydrodynamic lift on hydrofoils lifting the vessel hull lifted out of the water, for sustained motion across water.
- Synonyms:
- foiling, hydrofoiling
Also used as
flying is also the present participle and gerund of fly.
flying meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
flying in Hindi
- उड़ते हुए
flying in Tamil
- that can fly
- பறக்கும் paṟakkum, பறக்கிற paṟakkiṟa
flying in Marathi
- उडत आहे
flying in Urdu
- اڑتے ہوئے
More languagesFewer languages
- flying in Bengali
- উড়ন্ত
- flying in Telugu
- ఎగురుతూ, ఎగురుతుంది
- flying in Malayalam
- പറക്കുന്നു, പറന്നുയരുന്നു, പറക്കൽ
- flying in Kannada
- ಹಾರುತ್ತಿದೆ, ಹಾರುತ್ತವೆ
- flying in Punjabi
- ਉੱਡਦੇ ਹੋਏ
- flying in Gujarati
- ઉડતી, ઉડ્ડયન
- flying in Nepali
- उड्ने
Examples of flying in a sentence
- in a sudden hail of exploding flying glass
- Wyles cut the fence, keeping the Flying D cowboys occupied rounding up their cattle.2013, Janette Kenny, One Real Cowboy:
Synonyms of flying
Antonyms
Forms of flying
| plural | flyings |
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Origin of flying
From Middle English fleynge, fleeʒinge, flihinde, vlyinde, vleoinde, flyand, ffleghand, flighand (also fleoninde, fleonninde, etc.), from Old English flēogende, from Proto-Germanic *fleugandz (“flying”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”), equivalent to fly + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian fljoogend (“flying”), West Frisian fleanend (“flying”), Dutch vliegend (“flying”), German Low German flegend (“flying”), German fliegend (“flying”), Danish flyvende (“flying”), Swedish flygande (“flying”), Icelandic fljúgandi (“flying”).
From Middle English flyinge, fleyng, fleyinge, fleynge, fleghyng, fleiʒeyng, flyeghynge, equivalent to fly + -ing. Cognate with Danish flyvning (“flying”), Swedish flygning (“flying”), Norwegian flyvning, flygning, flyging, flying (“flying”).
Words formed from flying
- actual flying time
- elapsed flying time
- flubber
- flying arch
- flying army
- flying baker
- Flying Banana
- flying bishop
- flying boat
- flying bomb
- flying brick
- flying bridge
- flying buttocks
- flying buttress
- flying camp
- flying car
- flying carp
- flying carpet
- flying cat
- flying circus
- flying coffin
- flying colours
- flying column
- flying cone
- flying cymbal
- flying disc
- flying disc golf
- flying disk
- flying doctor
- Flying Dutchman
- flying eaves
- flying fig
- flying fish
- Flying Fortress
- flying fox
- flying freehold
- flying frog
- flying fuck
- flying ginny
- flying gurnard
- flying hatchetfish
- flying ice cube effect
- flying jenny
- flying jib
- flying jib boom
- flying jibboom
- flying junction
- flying kick
- flying kiss
- flying knee
- flying lap
- flying lemur
- flying lizard
- flyingly
- flying mare
- flying meet
- flying monkeys
- flying mouse
- flying officer
- flying ointment
Phrases with flying
- Flying V
- flying at
- flying by
- flying in
- Flying Vs
- flying ace
- flying low
- flying off
- flying out
- flying rat
- flying rib
- flying rod
132 more phrasesFewer phrases
- bush flying
- flying aces
- flying cats
- flying figs
- flying high
- flying into
- flying jibs
- flying laps
- flying mice
- flying rats
- flying ribs
- flying rods
- flying shit
- flying shot
- flying solo
- flying upon
- flying wing
- kite flying
- flying apart
- flying blind
- flying boats
- flying bombs
- flying camps
- flying carps
- flying discs
- flying disks
- flying foxes
- flying frogs
- flying fucks
- flying kicks
- flying knees
- flying mares
- flying meets
- flying party
- flying point
- flying rowan
- flying shits
- flying shots
- flying snake
- flying sport
- flying squad
- flying squid
- flying start
- flying visit
- flying voter
- flying wedge
- flying white
- flying wings
- pilot flying
- speed flying
- yogic flying
- flying a kite
- flying arches
- flying armies
- flying bricks
- flying colors
- flying dragon
- flying fishes
- flying helmet
- flying kisses
- flying lemurs
- flying picket
- flying points
- flying rowans
- flying saucer
- flying school
- flying snakes
- flying sports
- flying squads
- flying squids
- flying starts
- flying toilet
- flying visits
- flying voters
- flying wedges
- hangar flying
- pilots flying
- flying bishops
- flying bridges
- flying carpets
- flying coffins
- flying columns
- flying cymbals
- flying doctors
- flying dragons
- flying ginnies
- flying helmets
- flying jennies
- flying machine
- flying parties
- flying pickets
- flying saucers
- flying schools
- flying toilets
- flying circuses
- Flying Dutchmen
- flying gurnards
- flying machines
- flying officers
- flying squirrel
- flying the coop
- flying the flag
- flying the kite
- flying the nest
- flying freeholds
- flying jib booms
- flying junctions
- flying phalanger
- flying squirrels
- flying stationer
- in flying colors
- pilot not flying
- red flying squid
- flying buttresses
- flying phalangers
- flying stationers
- in flying colours
- instrument flying
- neon flying squid
- pilots not flying
- flying like a bird
- gave a flying fuck
- gave a flying shit
- give a flying crap
- give a flying fuck
- give a flying shit
- jumbo flying squid
- neon flying squids
- Sunda flying lemur
- take a flying fuck
- take a flying leap
- took a flying leap
Words that rhyme with flying
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- buying
- clying
- complying
- decrying
- defying
- denying
- descrying
- dyeing
- espying
- forbuying
- frying
- goodbyeing
- high-flying
- highing
- implying
- lyeing
- lying
- mistrying
- nighing
- outvying
- pieing
- plying
- prying
- rebuying
- redyeing
- refrying
- relying
- replying
- retrying
- retying
- scrying
- shanghaiing
- shying
- sighing
- skying
- speed flying
- spying
- stying
- supplying
- thighing
- unbuying
- uncrying
- undrying
- undyeing
- undying
- unflying
- unfrying
- unlying
Questions about flying
- What does flying mean?
- Flying means that flies or can fly.
- What is flying in Hindi?
- Flying in Hindi is उड़ते हुए. See Flying meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use flying in a sentence?
- in a sudden hail of exploding flying glass
- What part of speech is flying?
- Flying can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce flying?
- Flying is pronounced /ˈflaɪ.ɪŋ/.
Words near flying in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: flying (page history and authors); flying (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flying (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flying (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flying (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flying (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flying (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flying (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flying (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flying (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flying (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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