TAKE THE AIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take the air mean? 

• TAKE THE AIR (verb)
  The verb TAKE THE AIR has 1 sense:

1. take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure

  Familiarity information: TAKE THE AIR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE THE AIR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

take the air; walk

Context example:

We like to walk every Sunday

Hypernyms (to "take the air" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Verb group:

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take the air"):

constitutionalize (take a walk for one's health or to aid digestion, as after a meal)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

The girl, who had been out of order, was carried by her governess to take the air about an hour’s distance, or thirty miles from town.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)