<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>making flight or passing through the air; that flies: a flying insect; an unidentified flying object.</li><li>floating, fluttering, waving, hanging, or moving freely in the air: flying banners; flying hair.</li><li>extending through the air.</li><li>moving swiftly.</li><li>made while moving swiftly: a flying leap.</li><li>very hasty or brief; fleeting or transitory: a flying visit; a flying remark.</li><li>designed or organized for swift movement or action.</li><li>fleeing, running away, or taking flight: They pursued the flying enemy.</li><li>Nautical: (of a sail) having none of its edges fastened to spars or stays.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of moving through the air on wings; flight.</li></ul><p><strong>Adverb</strong></p><ul><li>Nautical: without being fastened to a yard, stay, or the like: a sail set flying.</li></ul>