in flight

1. 1.

   flying through the air

   “we saw the ducks in flight”

   Synonymson the wing

Questions about in flight

What does in flight mean?

in flight means "flying through the air".

What is another word for in flight?

Close synonyms include on the wing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is in flight a common word?

in flight is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.