Flapping and Swooping

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Flapping noun - The motion made by flapping up and down.

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Swooping and flapping are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Swooping" instead an adjective "Flapping".

Nearby Words: flap, flapped, flapper

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Flapping and swooping are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Flapping" instead an adjective "Swooping".

Nearby Words: swoop, swooped

In Kim Stanley Robinson's Blue Mars, there exist recreational flight suits which act as a strength-amplifying exoskeleton, giving wearers a sufficient power-to-weight ratio to fly like a bird, at least in Martian gravity (though more diving and swooping, because flapping would be dull).

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