Synonyms for fly
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Wing — to travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface
wing, hover, soar, glide, flutter, float, roll on, slip, flow, wave, skim, hustle, elapse, aviate
2. Rush — to travel or proceed very fast; to hasten. To move suddenly, or with violence; to carry out an act suddenly…
3. Ascend — to travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface. To…
Other
take flight, flee, flit, make off, explode, take wing, escape, pilot, run, abscond, shoot, dart
Noun
Definitions
- v. 1
To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
The probe flew beyond the solar system.
- v. 2
To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface. To take a flight on a plane; to pilot or crew a plane.
My airline needs me to get clearance before I can fly again.
- v. 3
To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten. To move suddenly, or with violence; to carry out an act suddenly or swiftly.
- n. 1
Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
Related words
- Word family
- flyfisherman flyflap flyflapper flyscreen flyspeck flystrike flyable flybridge
- Phrases
- fly the coop let fly tsetse fly deer fly fever flower fly fly biscuit glow fly fly high
- Other spellings
- vly
Example sentences
- wing This bird has a broken wing. It can't fly anymore.
- soar The wind made Adriano's kite soar high in the sky.
- glide Tom watched the skaters glide across the ice.
- hover "When you're ready, pick it up and hover over to the helipad."
- swap Where's your twenty? I'll swap it for a fiver.
By length
- 3 letters
- run1
- 4 letters
- pass1, rise1, flow1, wing1, wave1, rush1, slip1, dash1, swap1, zoom1, flee1, dart1, soar1, skim1
- 5 letters
- drive1, speed1, shoot1, mount1, pilot2, hurry2, float1, hover2, glide1
- 6 letters
- escape2, hustle2, vanish2, ascend2, elapse2, aviate
- 7 letters
- explode2, flutter2, abscond2
- 8 letters
- carriage2, vaporize3, vaporise
- 9 letters
- vapourize
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (pilot2 = 2 syllables).