An axially symmetric body small compared with the mean free path is free to move in a shearing gas. The body is treated as a test particle. The force and torque acting on the body are calculated. This force and torque will set the body in motion, which asymptotically will take place in one of the eigendirections of the rate of deformation tensor. The axis of the body then points in the same direction. For a velocity field vx(y) the final motion is parallel to one of the lines x = y and x = −y, and the speed of the motion is given by V = 9μβN8p (2πkBTm)1/2 ατb14 + 12πατ + [8 − (6 − πατ)]b3vx,y. Here μ is the viscosity of the gas, p is the pressure, βN is a number close to unity, T is the temperature, m is the mass of a gas molecule, and ατ is parameter in the boundary conditions close to unity. The non‐dimensional numbers b1 and b3 depends on the shape of the body. This speed is of the order of the mean free path of the gas multiplied by the shearing. There will be no motion for a body, which is reflection...