Originally Posted by 2HousePlague

Is there any one word that is MOST OFTEN used to describe the basic way hot-air balloons "go" ?

For example, cars run or drive; people walk, etc.

And I'm not looking for anything poetic like levitate, float, ghost or throb -- as in "...throbbing on the horizon, like desperate peaches at the apex of their ripeness..."

Also, any terms used to describe other flying things will have to pass the test of MOST OFTEN USED -- so that verbs like fly or glide or drift could not be chosen unless they were ESPECIALLY associated with hot-air balloons, more than any other.

What ya got?


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