mid-air
Suspended above ground
Mid-air is the space above the ground, not touching any surface: The acrobat caught her partner in mid-air.
The term emphasizes suspension or action happening while airborne: a mid-air collision, The ball exploded in mid-air.
Often hyphenated as an adjective, one word as a noun.
Suspend from above
- dangleHang loosely, swaying
- suspendHalt or hang temporarily
- floatBuoyant object or vehicle
- levitateFloat in air
hover · drift · poise · balance · airborne · aloft · weightless · defying gravity
Suspended acrobatic bar
- somersaultFull-body forward rotation
- flipQuick turning motion
- tumblingAcrobatic rolling and flipping
- aerialistCircus performer aloft
gymnastics · tightrope · highwire · circus · leap · vault · twirl · spin
hang
Suspend from above
levitate · hover · drift · poise · balance · airborne · aloft · weightless · defying gravity · frozen
trapeze
Suspended acrobatic bar
- somersaultFull-body forward rotation
- flipQuick turning motion
- tumblingAcrobatic rolling and flipping
aerialist · gymnastics · tightrope · highwire · circus · leap · vault · twirl · spin · pirouette
aviation
Flying or operating aircraft
- altitudeMeasured height above reference
- airspaceRegulated overhead flight zone
- aerodynamicsPhysics of air motion
takeoff · turbulence · jetstream · pilot · cockpit · airspeed · wing · fuselage · glide · ascent
crash
Sudden violent impact
near-miss · evasion · debris · shatter · fragment · explosion · contact · avoidance · close call · trajectory
- stillnessstillness, motionless, motionlessness, immobility, unmoving
mid-airgrounded
Stable and realistic
on the ground · earthbound · ground-level · landed · on solid ground