Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class II. Words Relating to SpaceSection IV. Motion
1. Motion in General
267. [Locomotion by Water or Air.] Navigation.
oar, scull, sweep, pole; paddle, screw, turbine; sail, canvas.
natation, swimming; fin, flipper, fish’s tail.
AËRONAUTICS, aërostatics, aërostation, aërodonetics, aërial navigation, aëronautism; aëromechanics, aërodynamics, balloonery; balloon [See Ship]; ballooning; aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation; volplaning, planing [colloq.], hydroplaning, volplane, glide, dive, nose-dive, spin, looping the loop; wing’ pinion, aileron.
VOYAGE, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus; headway, sternway, leeway; fairway.
MARINER [See Mariner]; AËRONAUT [See Aëronaut]
NAVIGATE, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise, steam, coast; hug the -shore, – land; circumnavigate.
ROW, paddle, ply the oar, pull, scull, punt.
FLOAT, swim, skim, effleurer [F.], dive, wade.
[IN AËRONAUTICS] fly, soar, drift, hover, be wafted, aviate, volplane, plane [colloq.], glide, dive, fly over, nose-dive, spin, loop the loop, land; take wing, take a flight; wing one’s flight, wing one’s way.
AËRONAUTIC, aëronautical, aërostatic or aërostatical, aëromechanic or aëromechanical, aërodynamic, aërial, volant, volitant, volatile, volitational.
AQUATIC, natatory, natatorial, natational.