spacelegs
nounEtymology From space + legs, after sea legs.
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Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction The ability to work confidently in space, or a zero-gravity environment.
- Very cautiously — it was more than a year since he had last been weightless and it would be some time before he regained his spacelegs — he hauled himself hand over hand through the airlock and into the large, circular chamber at the axis of the Space Station.1968, Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey: