English > air travel: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | travel via aircraft. |
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| Example | "air travel involves too much waiting in airports" |
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| Synonyms | aviation, air |
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| Category of | belly-land | Land on the underside without the landing gear |
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| buzz | fly low |
| chandelle | climb suddenly and steeply |
| crab | direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind |
| crash-dive | descend steeply and rapidly |
| crash land | make an emergency landing |
| cruise | Travel at a moderate speed |
| deplane | get off an airplane |
| ditch | make an emergency landing on water |
| emplane, enplane | board a plane |
| fly, aviate, pilot | Operate an airplane |
| fly | Travel in an airplane |
| fly blind | fly an airplane solely by relying on instruments |
| fly contact | fly a plane by using visible landmarks or points of reference |
| glide | fly in or as if in a glider plane |
| jet | fly a jet plane |
| kite | soar or fly like a kite |
| land, put down, bring down | Cause to come to the ground |
| nosedive | plunge / plunge nose first |
| pass over, overfly | fly over |
| peel off | Leave a formation |
| power-dive | make a power dive |
| red-eye | Travel on an overnight flight |
| sailplane, soar | fly a plane without an engine |
| solo | fly alone, without a co-pilot or passengers |
| stall | Cause an airplane to go into a stall |
| stall | Experience a stall in flight, of airplanes |
| stooge | cruise in slow or routine flights |
| test fly | Test a plane |
| Narrower | flight, flying | An instance of traveling by air |
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| Broader | travel, traveling, travelling | The act of going from one place to another |
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| Spanish | aviación |
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| Catalan | aviació |
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