on the wing

1. 1.

   flying through the air

   “we saw the ducks in flight”

   Synonymsin flight

Questions about on the wing

What does on the wing mean?

on the wing means "flying through the air".

What is another word for on the wing?

Close synonyms include in flight. 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 on the wing a common word?

on the wing 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.