'against the wind' definitions:

Definition of 'against the wind'

adverb

In the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing; "they flew upwind" [syn: upwind, against the wind, into the wind] [ant: downwind]

Words containing 'against the wind'

All in the wind,
Before the wind,
Down the wind,
To be in the wind,
To have the wind,
To wind off,
To wind out,
To wind up,
Wind,
Winded,
Winding,
Windingly,
in the wind,
into the wind,
wind off,
wind up,
winds,
A beating wind,
A capful of wind,
A sheet in the wind,
Baffling wind,
Between wind and water,
Both sheets in the wind,
Broken wind,
Cardinal winds,
Close to the wind,
Cross wind,
Dead wind,
Down-wind,
Drum winding,
Fore wind,
Head wind,
In the eye of the wind,
In the wind's eye,
Land wind,
Near the wind,
On the wings of the wind,
Ring winding,
Series winding,
Shunt winding,
Side wind,
Slant or wind,
Thick wind,
To break wind,
To carry the wind,
To gain the wind,
To get wind,
To haul the wind,
To raise the wind,
To take the wind,
To take wind,
To touch the wind,
To wind a ship,
Trade wind,
Up-wind,
Volcanic wind,
Wind Gap,
Wind Lake,
Wind Point,
Wind band,
Wind chest,
Wind colic,
Wind dropsy,
Wind egg,
Wind furnace,
Wind gauge,
Wind gun,
Wind hatch,
Wind instrument,
Wind pump,
Wind rose,
Wind rush,
Wind sail,
Wind shake,
Wind shock,
Wind side,
Wind signal,
Wind wheel,
Wind-up,
Winding engine,
Winding sheet,
Winding tackle,
Wood wind,
antitrade wind,
break wind,
breaking wind,
catabatic wind,
chinook wind,
east wind,
field winding,
gentle wind,
get wind,
high wind,
katabatic wind,
long winded,
north wind,
northwest wind,
prevailing wind,
primary winding,
second wind,
secondary winding,
solar wind,
south wind,
straw in the wind,
tail wind,
west wind,
wind bell,
wind chime,
wind cone,
wind deflection,
wind exposure,
wind farm,
wind gage,
wind generation,
wind generator,
wind harp,
wind park,
wind poppy,
wind power,
wind scale,
wind sleeve,
wind sock,
wind tee,
wind tunnel,
wind turbine,
wind vane,
Broken-winded,
Long-winded,
Short-winded,
Stem-winding,
Thick-winded,
Three sheets in the wind,
To eat the wind out of a vessel,
Wind Gap, PA,
Wind Lake, WI,
Wind Point, WI,
Wind-break,
Wind-broken,
Wind-fertilized,
Wind-plant,
Wind-rode,
Wind-shaken,
Wind-sucker,
Wind-sucking,
ill-wind,
long-windedly,
pinwheel wind collector,
self-winding,
wind energy facility,
winding-clothes,
winding-sheet,
To take the wind out of one's sails,
wind cave national park