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flying by

flying by is the present participle and gerund of fly by.

Meaning of fly by

Verb

fly by (third-person singular simple present flies by, present participle flying by, simple past flew by, past participle flown by)

  1. (idiomatic) To pass or go past quickly, often without much interaction
    • I like to sit and watch the world fly by.
    Synonyms:
    go by, pass by, forpass, forthglide, overgo, pass, roll on, slip by, transpass
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fly, by.

Questions about flying by

What is flying by the present participle and gerund of?
Flying by is the present participle and gerund of fly by.

Words near flying by in the dictionary

  1. flying bridge
  2. flying bridges
  3. flying buttocks
  4. flying buttress
  5. flying buttresses
  6. flying by
  7. flying by the seat of one's pants
  8. flying camp
  9. flying camps
  10. flying car
  11. flying carp

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flying by (page history and authors); fly by (page history and authors). 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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