postflight

After a flight.

Adjective

  1. After a flight.
    • The great game of golf offered an antidote to the inevitable dead space — blocks of difficult-to-use hours, pre- and postflight — that are one of business travel’s biggest drags. - 2007 September 4, John Berg, “Time on...

Origin

From post- + flight.

Noun

  1. The portion of the movement after pushing off the vault but before landing on the mat.
    • Between the preflight and postflight is the block, a rapid motion in which the gymnast’s hands hit the vault and she pushes herself off, converting the horizontal momentum from her sprint down the runway into vertical...

Forms

postflights