The form of locomotion characteristic of birds and determining their adaptations of which the main one is the modification of the forelimbs to wings, providing upward lift and forward propulsion through the air. Flight can be of a flapping, gliding (horizontal or downward movement in basically still air), soaring (upward gliding movement in rising air) or hovering (flying with ground speed nil) nature.

Alternative forms for flight : flights, fly, flying, glide, glides, gliding, hover, hovering, hovers, soaring , soars.