Another dispersal strategy is to wait for a fair breeze, and then to ride it as far as possible. Sometimes the entire fruit becomes airborne; other times the fruit cracks open to let its seeds fly away.

In this picture the seed, from the American bugbane plant, is adapted for air dispersal with dozens of protrusions to help it float buoyantly on the wind. Other aerodynamically inclined fruits use structures resembling parachutes, shuttlecocks, and Frisbees.