aquatics; boating, yachting; ship &c 273; oar, paddle, screw, sail,
canvas, aileron.
natation†, swimming; fin, flipper, fish's tail.
aerostation†, aerostatics†, aeronautics; balloonery†; balloon &c
273; ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation†;
wing, pinion; rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics,
orbiting.
voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus†;
headway, sternway, leeway; fairway.
mariner &c 269.
flight, trip; shuttle, run, airlift.
V. sail; put to sea &c (depart) 293; take ship, get under way; set
sail, spread sail, spread canvas; gather way, have way on; make sail,
carry sail; plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the
ocean; walk the waters.
navigate, warp, luff†, scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise,
coast; hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate.
ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam.
swim, float; buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer
[Fr.], dive, wade.
fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take
wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing
one's flight, wing one's way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide.
Adj. sailing &c v.; volant†, aerostatic†; seafaring, nautical, maritime,
naval; seagoing, coasting; afloat; navigable; aerial, aeronautic;
grallatory†.
Adv. under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam; on the wing, in
flight, in orbit.
Phr. bon voyage; spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale [Pope].