defying gravity
Resisting Earth's pull
Defying gravity means resisting or appearing to overcome the downward pull that keeps objects earthbound.
Literally, it describes things that seem to float, hover, or stay aloft impossibly: The acrobat's leap seemed to defy gravity.
Figuratively, it suggests achieving what appears impossible or beating overwhelming odds: Her career has been defying gravity for decades.
- floatingStaying atop liquid
- floating sensationSense of being buoyed
- weightlessHaving no heft
- levitationUnsupported aerial suspension
- walking on airExtremely happy, weightless feeling
soaring · flying · ascending · airborne · hovering · Peter Pan · rising · suspension · buoyancy · lift · antigravity · Wicked · Broadway musical · Elphaba · Idina Menzel · acrobatics · aerial · magic trick
- floating artlevitation, suspension, mobiles
- levitationfloating, hovering, magnetic levitation, maglev, quantum levitation
- impossibilitiessquare circle, squared circle, perpetual motion, dividing by zero, logical paradox
- defying gravitylevitation, floating, weightlessness, zero-g, hover
defying gravityfalling
Moving downward freely
plummeting · dropping · sinking · descending · plunging
defying gravitycrashing and burning
Failing dramatically and publicly
falling flat · falling short · buckling · yielding · capitulating
defy, defied, defies, defiance, defiant, defiantly, grave, graves, graven