flight path

noun

: the path in the air or space made or followed by something (such as a particle, an airplane, or a spacecraft) in flight

Examples of flight path in a Sentence

No other planes were on their flight path.

Recent Examples on the Web

With the Fiji Airways new flight path, North Americans are now just one stop away from two South Pacific icons and an entirely new way to experience Australia. —Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025

Missions on this trajectory take a safe flight path over the water and also get a boost from the rotational speed of Earth, which saves fuel. —Andrew Jones, Space.com, 31 Mar. 2025

There's no units, no locations, no routes, no flight paths. —ABC News, 30 Mar. 2025

Today, the most common approach is a type of solar geoengineering that involves flying high-altitude aircraft or balloons to release reflective particles in the high atmosphere, well above the flight paths of commercial planes. —Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1908, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for flight path

• bloodbath
• footpath
• towpath
• warpath
• aftermath
• multipath
• psychopath
• hath
• lath
• math
• rath
• spath

Kids Definition

flight path

noun

: the path in the air or space made or followed by something (as a particle, an airplane, or a spacecraft) in flight