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glide

 (glīd)
v. glid·ed, glid·ing, glides
v.intr.
1. To move in a smooth, effortless manner: a submarine gliding through the water. See Synonyms at slide.
2. To move silently and furtively: The thief glided across the room.
3. To occur or pass imperceptibly: The autumn days glided by.
4. To fly without propulsion from wings or an engine.
5. Music To blend one tone into the next; slur.
6. Linguistics To articulate a glide in speech.
v.tr.
1. To cause to move or pass smoothly, silently, or imperceptibly: glided the key into the lock.
2. To operate or fly (an aircraft) without propulsion from wings or an engine: She glided the paraglider over the trees.
n.
1. The act of gliding.
2. Music A slur.
3. Linguistics
a. The transitional sound produced by passing from the articulatory position of one speech sound to that of another.
b. See semivowel.

[Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan; see ghel- in Indo-European roots.]
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gliding

(ˈɡlaɪdɪŋ)
n
(Individual Sports, other than specified) the sport of flying in a glider
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.gliding - the activity of flying a glidergliding - the activity of flying a glider  
flying, flight - an instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an exciting adventure for him"
hang gliding - gliding in a hang glider
paragliding, parasailing - gliding in a parasail
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Translations
bezmotorové létání
svæveflyvning
purjelento
jedriličarenje
siklórepülés
svifflug
グライダー競技
활공
bezmotorové lietanie
jadralno letenje
segelflygning
การร่อน
plânörcülükplanörle uçmaplânörle uçma
môn tàu lượn

gliding

[ˈglaɪdɪŋ] N (Aer) → vuelo m sin motor, planeo m
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

gliding

[ˈglaɪdɪŋ] nvol m à voile
My hobby is gliding → Le vol à voile est mon passe-temps favori.
to go gliding → faire du vol à voile
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

gliding

n (Aviat) → Segelfliegen nt; gliding clubSegelfliegerklub m
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gliding

[ˈglaɪdɪŋ] n (Aer) → volo a vela
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

glide

(glaid) verb
1. to move smoothly and easily. The dancers glided across the floor.
2. to travel by or fly a glider.
noun
a gliding movement.
ˈglider noun
a small, light aeroplane which has no engine.
ˈgliding noun
the flying of gliders. I enjoy gliding.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

gliding

التَحْلِيقُ في الـجَوّ bezmotorové létání svæveflyvning Gleiten ανεμόπτερο vuelo sin motor purjelento vol plané jedriličarenje volo planato グライダー競技 활공 zweefvliegsport glideflyging szybownictwo voo com planador планеризм segelflygning การร่อน planörle uçma môn tàu lượn 滑行
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References in classic literature ?
In a minute or two here comes this under- taker's back and shoulders gliding along the wall again; and so he glided and glided around three sides of the room, and then rose up, and shaded his mouth with his hands, and stretched his neck out towards the preacher, over the people's heads, and says, in a kind of a coarse whisper, "HE HAD A RAT!" Then he drooped down and glided along the wall again to his place.
When gliding by the Bashee isles we emerged at last upon the great South Sea; were it not for other things, I could have greeted my dear Pacific with uncounted thanks, for now the long supplication of my youth was answered; that serene ocean rolled eastwards from me a thousand leagues of blue.
The bright figure of the child still floated on before me gliding low in the cloudless sky.
On our return from that expedition we came gliding into the old harbour so late that Dominic and I, making for the cafe kept by Madame Leonore, found it empty of customers, except for two rather sinister fellows playing cards together at a corner table near the door.
'Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--' Alice was beginning to say, when suddenly the needles turned into oars in her hands, and she found they were in a little boat, gliding along between banks: so there was nothing for it but to do her best.
There is no pleasanter place for such a meal than a raft that is gliding down the winding Neckar past green meadows and wooded hills, and slumbering villages, and craggy heights graced with crumbling towers and battlements.
In the fields, the lanes, the roads, in all quarters of the town--east, west, north, and south--that man was seen gliding on like a shadow.
A light yacht, chaste and elegant in its form, was gliding amidst the first dews of night over the immense lake, extending from Gibraltar to the Dardanelles, and from Tunis to Venice.
Although no graduated links of structure, fitted for gliding through the air, now connect the Galeopithecus with the other Lemuridae, yet I can see no difficulty in supposing that such links formerly existed, and that each had been formed by the same steps as in the case of the less perfectly gliding squirrels; and that each grade of structure had been useful to its possessor.
That dreamy gliding in the boat which had lasted for four hours, and had brought some weariness and exhaustion; the recoil of her fatigued sensations from the impracticable difficulty of getting out of the boat at this unknown distance from home, and walking for long miles,--all helped to bring her into more complete subjection to that strong, mysterious charm which made a last parting from Stephen seem the death of all joy, and made the thought of wounding him like the first touch of the torturing iron before which resolution shrank.
Gliding forward, she tried to seize the African; but he eluded her grasp, just missing, in doing so, falling into the mysterious hole.
Above him there was now nothing but the sky- the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds gliding slowly across it.