riding the wind
- soaringRising effortlessly upward
- glidingEngineless aerial movement
- breezeLight, gentle air movement
- sailingWind-propelled water travel
- flyingMoving through air
freedom · kite · wings · drifting · effortless · current · gust · airborne · floating · swooping · feathers · uplift · coasting · momentum · windswept · unbridled · flowing · sail
effort and resistance
riding the windswimming upstream
Moving against water flow
hitting a wall · treading water · grinding to a halt · dead in the water · slogging through
agency and control
riding the windadrift
Floating without control
tossed about · lost at sea · floundering · out of control · rudderless
dynamism and stasis
riding the windstanding still
Absence of motion
becalmed · dead in the water · stagnating · spinning wheels · going nowhere