Flying and Speeding

Flying

Flying adjective - Acting or done with excessive or careless speed.

Speeding and flying are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Speeding" instead an adjective "Flying".

Nearby Words: fly, flyer, flyover

Speeding

Speeding noun - Changing location rapidly.

Flying and speeding are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Flying" instead an adjective "Speeding".

Nearby Words: speed, speedy, speeded, speeder, speedup

Both words in one sentence

  • Used in one episode of the Bubblegum Crisis OVA when Sylia and Linna are flying alongside and a little below a speeding car and Priss is trying to get the passengers out.
  • Series / Monty Python's Flying Circus Man in street (John Cleese): Well, speaking as a man on the street... (gets knocked flying by speeding car) WAAGH!
  • She jumps from a speeding taxi on a motorway driven by a homicidal android into the TARDIS (which is flying along about 2m from the cab) in her wedding dress.
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