AIR TRAVEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does air travel mean? 

• AIR TRAVEL (noun)
  The noun AIR TRAVEL has 1 sense:

1. travel via aircraft

  Familiarity information: AIR TRAVEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIR TRAVEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Travel via aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

air; air travel; aviation

Context example:

if you've time to spare go by air

Hypernyms ("air travel" is a kind of...):

travel; traveling; travelling (the act of going from one place to another)

Domain member category:

peel off (leave a formation)

emplane; enplane (board a plane)

deplane (get off an airplane)

bring down; land; put down (cause to come to the ground)

ditch (make an emergency landing on water)

crash land (make an emergency landing)

belly-land (land on the underside without the landing gear)

chandelle (climb suddenly and steeply)

crash-dive (descend steeply and rapidly)

nosedive (plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft)

power-dive (make a power dive)

sailplane; soar (fly a plane without an engine)

kite (soar or fly like a kite)

glide (fly in or as if in a glider plane)

jet (fly a jet plane)

test fly (test a plane)

solo (fly alone, without a co-pilot or passengers)

fly contact (fly a plane by using visible landmarks or points of reference)

fly blind (fly an airplane solely by relying on instruments)

aviate; fly; pilot (operate an airplane)

crab (direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind)

buzz (fly low)

stall (experience a stall in flight, of airplanes)

stall (cause an airplane to go into a stall)

stooge (cruise in slow or routine flights)

cruise (travel at a moderate speed)

red-eye (travel on an overnight flight)

fly (travel in an airplane)

overfly; pass over (fly over)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "air travel"):

flight; flying (an instance of traveling by air)

 Context examples 

Magnetic eruptions on the sun can impact air travel, disrupt satellite communications and bring down power grids, causing long-lasting blackouts and disabling technologies such as GPS.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)

Modern society often places abnormal pressure on the human body — from shifting time schedules due to air travel, to work cycles that don't conform to natural light, to odd eating times — and these external conditions create an imbalance in the body's natural cycles, which are evolutionarily synchronized to day and night.

(Neurons That Control Brain's Body Clock Identified, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)