free falling
Gravity's unresisted pull
Free falling describes motion under gravity alone, with no other forces acting—the state of a skydiver before the parachute opens, or an object dropped in a vacuum.
The term extends to any uncontrolled descent or decline: The company's stock went into free fall.
Emotionally, free falling suggests surrendering to circumstances without resistance: She felt like she was free falling after the breakup.
- skydivingRecreational freefall from aircraft
- plummetingFalling steeply and fast
- weightlessHaving no heft
- gravityMutual mass attraction
- air resistanceForce opposing atmospheric movement
parachute · descent · terminal velocity · diving · dropping · zero gravity · airborne · rushing · wind · adrenaline · vertigo · Tom Petty · letting go · stomach · leap · plunge · untethered · no turning back
- thrillsroller coasters, thrill, adrenaline, skydiving, bungee jump
- extreme sportsbungee jumping, skydiving, wingsuit flying, cliff diving, paragliding
- air sportsskydiving, paragliding, hang gliding, wingsuit flying, parachuting
free fallinggliding
Engineless aerial movement
soaring · floating · hovering · flying · powered flight
free fallingrising
Act of ascending
ascending · climbing · lifting off · levitating · soaring