Fly
Fly verb - To move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings.
Common collocations
| ability | fly ability | gesture ability |
Both words in one sentence
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In Tarzan II, Kago does this gesture after his brother Uto says that if their bones were hollow and they were able to fly, they'd be the "biggest birds in town".
Source: Face Palm / Animated Films -
Just when he thinks he's safe, the trooper calls to him... only to gesture to him that his fly is down.
Source: Film / The Fugitive -
Some interpretations have it as a requirement for him to fly up the chimney, perhaps because later audiences weren't certain what the gesture meant.
Source: Nose Tapping
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Gesture and Fly. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fly/gesture
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