catch air
Get airborne briefly
To catch air is to become briefly airborne, usually while in motion—a skateboarder launching off a ramp, a car hitting a bump at speed, a snowboarder leaving the lip of a halfpipe.
The phrase emphasizes the moment of suspension: He caught serious air off that jump.
Sometimes shortened to catch some air or just get air.
- soarAscend to heights
- snowboardingDescending slopes on single board
- half pipeU-shaped ramp for tricks
- liftMechanism for vertical transport
- leapSudden springing movement
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