into the wind

1. 1.

   in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing

   “they flew upwind”

   Synonymsupwindagainst the wind

Questions about into the wind

What does into the wind mean?

into the wind means "in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing".

What is another word for into the wind?

Close synonyms include upwind, against the wind. 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 into the wind a common word?

into the wind is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.