Does anyone know any specific words that can be used to describe a character flying?

Question

I feel like I've used words like "floating" and "hovering" too often, to the point of tedium.

Answer 1

Defying gravity, perhaps. Immune to gravity.

Suspended, without support.

Weightless in the air.

As general advice, use more words; use metaphors and similes; readers do not mind reading.

She's three feet above the ground, cruising along beside me.

Also, recognize that both characters and the reader will grow accustomed to a character that is routinely flying, so you don't have to describe this so often. Readers will get bored by the repetition, just like you do. Let the fact be told by dialogue or body action.

Darcy looked up at Sheila, squinting into the sun behind her. "I wish you wouldn't fly so high, it's hard to talk to you up there."

Sheila dropped down to eye level with Darcy. "Sorry, earlier I was trying to find that bend, and I just forgot."

We do want to describe surroundings and such, but we don't want to get so repetitive about descriptions that readers get bored.

One way to do that is to hide your descriptions in friction or conflict; as my example illustrates; Darcy is mildly irritated, Sheila is apologetic. The emotional "spice" hides that fact that we are bringing up once again that Sheila flies.

So Sheila flies over a mud bog without thinking, leaving Darcy to fend for himself. She accidentally whacks her head on a door frame. Invent problems with flying, she has to devise her own etiquette about flying to not offend her compatriots.