Definition of "take the air" []

• Take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "One evening the King and the ladies of the Court rode out to take the air in the forest, but the Queen, being a little indisposed did not go; I stayed to wait upon her, and she walked down to the pond-side, and dismissed her gentlemen ushers, that she might be more at liberty."
• "My aunt, Mary Beton, I must tell you, died by a fall from her horse when she was riding out to take the air in Bombay."
• ""I am glad, however," said Lord Merton, "that you did not take the air this morning, for Coverley has been driving against me as if he was mad: he has got two of the finest spirited horses I ever saw.""