What is a fancy word for flying?

A fancy word for flying depends on context whether you mean movement through air, piloting, or figurative, with many elegant synonyms. For literal flying through air, fancy synonyms include soaring, gliding, aviating, winging, hovering, fluttering, and volitant. Soaring is a fancy poetic word for flying high and gracefully, as in eagle soaring. Aviating is formal term for flying an aircraft. Volant means flying or capable of flying, used in heraldry and fancy writing. For birds and insects, fancy words include alate meaning winged, and volitant meaning flying about. For aircraft, fancy words include airborne, in flight, and aeronautical. For figurative flying meaning moving quickly, fancy synonyms include darting, zipping, hastening, and sailing. For noun form, fancy words for flying include flight, aviation, aeronautics, volitation, and levitation. Volitation is a rare fancy word meaning act of flying. If you want a single fancy word to replace flying in elegant writing, soaring is most commonly used fancy word for graceful flying, as in soaring through sky. For formal aviation context, aviating or airborne are fancy. For poetic, you could use winging or gliding. So fancy words include soaring, aviating, gliding, volant, and volitation.