a flight technique for keeping course in cross winds. Except along the line of wind direction, all straight flights in wind follow curved flight paths. Compensate for any sideways drift by altering your flight path to head slightly upwind of your intended target.
A condition of flight in which, due to the direction of winds aloft, the aircraft is moving somewhat sideways through the air but following a straight line in relation to the ground. Named after the manner in which crabs move.
A canopy is crabbing when it is flown at an angle sideways to the ambient wind, resulting in a path across the ground that is sideways as well as forwards.
Dog moves with its body at an angle to the line of travel. Also know as "sidewinding", "sidewheeling" or "yawing".
In aviation terminology, the motion of an aircraft in flight when a crosswind causes its heading to differ from the course. See drift, drift-correction angle.