The phrase "air defying" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that challenges or goes against the natural laws of air or gravity, often in a poetic or metaphorical context.
Example: "The acrobat performed air-defying stunts that left the audience in awe."
Alternatives: "gravity-defying" or "aerially challenging".
And I can still picture him, up in the air, defying gravity the way pole-vaulters do -- reaching new heights the way humans aren't expected to".
The piece is cunningly paced so that at one moment it has the low-key restlessness of young people hanging out with their skateboards or a basketball, and the next it has exploded into a sequence in which bodies fly through the air defying gravity, as if on some urgent mission to save themselves and the world before it is too late.
Whether they're breaking land-speed records, flying through the air defying laws of aerodynamics, or driven by intrepid heroes pursuing bad guys, cars and movies go together like, well, like movies and popcorn.
In one spirited match, the ball was kicked so high that it stuck between two air ducts, defying left wing Scott Hartnell's best effort to dislodge it by throwing a soda bottle at it.
Such thoughts are occasioned by Susan Hiller's wonderful Homage to Yves Klein: Levitations (2008), an immense array of photographs that record (or purport to record) instances of unaided human flight: figures leaping, floating, levitating, cross-legged in mid-air, people defying gravity – all of it presumably impossible.
With his dreadlocks, baggy pants and brooding air, he defied expectations.
But there is something in the air that defies historical parallels: something new to do with technology, behaviour and popular culture.
A spot by the Mexican airline AeroMexico, for example, evokes Trump's rhetoric about immigration and walls before making the (dubious, yes) case that air travel defies borders.
He plucked screened shots out of the air and defied conventional goaltending by coming out well beyond the lip of his crease to attack shooters, running his consecutive-save total to 68 before Andrej Meszaros scored for Philadelphia with 3 minutes 34 seconds left in the second period.
"The beneficial temporary impact on air quality defies logic: 80 diesel buses an hour, traffic backed up and idling on the side streets, and the study reveals that we're actually going to see a decrease in pollution?" said David Marcus, another member of the Coalition.
The basic premise that General McCaffrey profited from his on-air appearances defies logic given the critical tone of the General's repeated comments regarding Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon.
