Aviate
to fly or fly in an aircraft.
Historical Examples
But in the same sense there is an impulse to aviate, to run a typewriter or write stories for magazines.
Human Nature and Conduct John Dewey
“Now the next thing is for you to teach us all to aviate,” laughed the southerner.
The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land Gordon Stuart
It is not quite clear in my mind even now why things in my immediate vicinity did not start to aviate.
Down the Yellowstone Lewis R. Freeman
verb
to pilot or fly in an aircraft
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