solo

noun (plural solos)

• 1a thing done by one person unaccompanied, in particular:
• (plural solos or soli /-li/) a piece of vocal or instrumental music or a dance, or a part or passage in one, for one performer: the opening bassoon solo is relatively bland Petipa often left the danseur to arrange his own brief solo
• an unaccompanied flight by a pilot in an aircraft: his first ride in his aircraft would also be his first solo

• 2 (also solo whist) [mass noun] a card game resembling whist in which the players make bids and the highest bidder plays against the others in an attempt to win a specified number of tricks.
• [count noun] a bid by which a player undertakes to win five tricks in solo whist.

• 3a motorbike without a sidecar: 50 races—solos and sidecars—should make for a thrilling showdown

adjective & adverb

• for or done by one person alone; unaccompanied: [as adjective]:a solo album [as adverb]:she’d spent most of her life flying solo
• [as adjective] (of a motorbike) without a sidecar:a solo machine

verb (soloes, soloing, soloed)

• perform something unaccompanied, in particular:
• perform an unaccompanied piece of music or a part or passage in one: you’re in danger of forgetting that you’re accompanying rather than soloing
• fly an aircraft unaccompanied: she had been flying for twelve years and had soloed on her seventeenth birthday
• undertake solo climbing: I was back next day with two friends, soloing again while they roped up I soloed back up it in the last light [with object]:he did not solo the South Face of Lhotse