🚕 A paid car ✈️ To move on ground 🚕 To ride in cab

to taxi

1 1.0

To ride in a car with a driver you pay

verb
/ˈtæksi/

: tomar un taxi

The pilot announced that we would taxi down the runway before taking off.
taxi around

Examples

Can I get you gentlemen anything before we taxi?

Non-Stop (2014)
Global two, again, need a tow or can you taxi?

Airport (1970)
Need a tow, or can you taxi?

Airport (1970)
It's not our job to taxi drunks around.

Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
We taxi home again.

Blog text (7)
Ready to taxi.

Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
We're ready to taxi.

Airplane! (1980)
We can taxi.

Airport (1970)
After the flight landed, we had to taxi to the terminal before getting off the plane.
As we taxid through the busy airport, I spotted several planes preparing for takeoff.

Synonyms

to cab

vsto taxi

Informal

3 2.8

To travel in a taxi as a passenger

is the same action but uses a different common word

to uber

vsto taxi

Informal

2 4.8

To get a car through the Uber app

is the general act of hiring a for-hire vehicle not a named service

Compounds

taxi driver

42 1.0

A person who drives people in a taxi for money

taxi fare

1 1.5

The money you pay for a taxi ride

taxi strip

1 6.3

A paved strip at an airport that planes use to move to or from the runway

taxi dancer

Archaic

1 9.9

A woman customers pay to dance with for each dance in a dance hall

taxi rank

1 2.3

A place where taxis wait to pick up passengers

burrito taxi

3.5

A vehicle that delivers burritos quickly to people

Surface Forms

taxi infinitive

taxied past

taxied past participle

taxiing present participle

taxis third person singular

Etymology

The verb taxi comes from the noun taxi and simply means 'to travel in a taxi' or take a paid ride, which is why people say they 'taxied' to the airport.