Navigation (Locomotion by water, or air)
Nouns
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navigation
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aquatics
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boating, yachting
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ship etc. Ship
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oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron. natation, swimming
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fin, flipper, fish's tail. aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics
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balloonery
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balloon etc. Ship
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ballooning, aviation, airmanship
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flying, flight, volitation
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wing, pinion
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rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting. voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus
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headway, sternway, leeway
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fairway. mariner etc. Mariner. flight, trip
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shuttle, run, airlift.
Verbs
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sail
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put to sea etc. (depart) [Initial motion from.] Departure
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take ship, get under way
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set sail, spread sail, spread canvas
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gather way, have way on
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make sail, carry sail
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plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean
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walk the waters. navigate, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge
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drift, course, cruise, coast
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hug the shore, hug the land
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circumnavigate. ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam. swim, float
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buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, dive, wade. fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket
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take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight
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wing one's flight, wing one's way
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aviate
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parachute, jump, glide.
Adjectives
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sailing etc. v.
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volant, aerostatic
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seafaring, nautical, maritime, naval
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seagoing, coasting
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afloat
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navigable
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aerial, aeronautic
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grallatory.
Adverbs
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under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam
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on the wing, in flight, in orbit.
Phrases
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bon voyage
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spread the thin oar and catch the driving spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale" [Pope].