THESAURUS
sternway
Brownian movement, advance, angular motion, ascending, ascent, axial motion, backflowing, backing, backset, backsliding, backward motion, backward step, career, climbing, course, current, descending, descent, downward motion, drift, driftage, driftway, ebbing, flight, flow, flux, forward motion, headway, lapse, leeway, mounting, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, passage, plunging, progress, radial motion, random motion, reaction, recession, recidivation, recidivism, reentry, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regress, regression, relapse, retroaction, retrocession, retroflexion, retrogradation, retrogression, retrusion, return, rising, rollback, run, rush, set, setback, sideward motion, sinking, soaring, steerageway, stream, subsiding, throwback, traject, trajet, trend, upward motion, way
ROGET THESAURUS
sternway
Navigation
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navigation, aquatics, boating, yachting, ship, oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron, natation, swimming, fin, flipper, fish's tail, aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics, balloonery, balloon, ballooning, aviation, airmanship, flying, flight, volitation, wing, pinion, rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting, voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus, headway,
sternway, leeway, fairway, mariner, flight, trip, shuttle, run, airlift, sailing, volant, aerostatic, seafaring, nautical, maritime, naval, seagoing, coasting, afloat, navigable, aerial, aeronautic, grallatory, under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam, on the wing, in flight, in orbit, bon voyage, spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.