🪁 A flying toy 🦅 A bird of prey 💸 A fake check 🦅 To glide in air 💸 To cheat with checks 🪁 To fly a toy

to kite

1 1.0

To fly a light frame on a string for fun

verb
/kaɪt/

: volar cometas

She loves to kite on sunny days.

Examples

Let's kite this weekend!
On a sunny afternoon, we decided to kite at the park while the wind was strong.
Every spring, children love to kite in the open fields near school.
She kites her homemade dragon whenever there's a good breeze.
We kited for hours until the sun went down.
The children were excited to kite together, running across the field with their colorful kites.
Every weekend, we gather at the beach to kite and enjoy the beautiful weather.

Idioms

high as a kite

NSFW

10 9.0

A state of great excitement and happiness, sometimes from drinking alcohol or taking drugs

Compounds

flying kite

1 1.6

To make a kite fly in the air for fun outdoors

box kite

1 4.6

A kite with a box shape open at both ends

black kite

7.7

A medium-sized bird of prey with dark feathers that often eats dead animals

kite balloon

Archaic

9.6

A balloon with a tail that keeps it facing the wind

kite tail

2.1

A strip attached to the end of a kite to keep it steady in the air

hell-kite

Offensive

9.9

A fierce, violent person who fights without mercy

swallow-tailed kite

8.8

A bird of prey with a long forked tail and black and white feathers

sport kite

5.8

A kite you fly with two lines and both hands to make quick turns

stunt kite

5.2

A kite controlled by two lines that does tricks in the air

white-tailed kite

8.2

A grey and white bird that hunts small animals in warm parts of the Americas

Surface Forms

kite infinitive

kited past

kited past participle

kiting present participle

kites third person singular

Etymology

Kite (to fly a kite) comes directly from the toy name; to kite is simply to make that toy 'fly' on the wind.