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Hovering is stationary flight, exhibited by bees, dragonflies, hummingbird hawk-moths, hummingbirds, bats, helicopters, balloons, and kites. Hovering generally consumes large amounts of fuel when done by rockets, special airplanes or hummingbirds.

Hovering, the name applied to the semi-squatting position often used by women while urinating to avoid sitting on a potentially contaminated toilet seat.

Hover may also refer to:

Levitation, the process by which an object is suspended by a physical force against gravitation, in a stable position without solid physical contact.

In transport

Helicopter flight controls#Hover, nearly stationary aviation in a helicopter
Hovercraft are crafts capable of traveling and being stationary over land, water, mud or ice
Hovertrains use magnetic levitation and linear motors
The Harrier jet and Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II jet can hover and fly
Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is turboprop aircraft that can hover, as a tiltrotor. There are over VTOL craft that can hover.
Great Wall Hover, an Sport utility vehicle produced by Great Wall Motors
Johan E. Høver, a Norwegian aircraft designer, most noted for the Høver M.F. 11

In computing

Hover (domain registrar)
Hover!, a computer game for Microsoft Windows
Mouse hover or mouseover, a gesture made with the pointer in computer user interfaces

Other uses

Hover Chamber Choir, established in 1992 in Armenia

See also