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/glˈaɪdɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Glide v. i. (past & past part. glided; pres. part. gliding)

To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice. "The river glideth at his own sweet will."

(Phon.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.

(Aeronautics) To move through the air by virtue of gravity or momentum; to volplane.

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Etymology of 'Gliding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gliding" Quotes from Famous Books

... full of lovely gliding figures. Violet dances with her husband, then with Eugene. Floyd and Madame Lepelletier are in the same set. It is the first time he has danced with her since they were betrothed. She knows if she had stayed at home and married him, neither ...

— Floyd Grandon's Honor • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... with glowing eyes. Here was his opportunity. Almost before he knew it he had slipped out of the thick cover and was gliding shadow-like across the sandbar. So silent and so stealthy were his movements that the child was not aware of his approach, and even when he halted and crouched low not more than ten paces away his ...

— The Black Phantom • Leo Edward Miller

... behaved like a child astonished at everything, and pleased at the least thing. With her face close to the window she saw through the transparent darkness of a lovely winter's night, villages and forests gliding past like phantoms. Afar off, in the depths of the country, she caught sight of a light glimmering, and she loved to picture a family gathered by the fire, the children asleep and the mother ...

— Serge Panine, Complete • Georges Ohnet

... on his feet and gliding to the wall, where he took down his belt from a nail and buckled it swiftly around him. And Kate ran to the window with the wolf-dog snarling beside her and saw standing in front of the house, his hat off, his black hair wildly tumbled, and two guns in his hands, Buck Daniels! ...

— The Night Horseman • Max Brand

... parted; Miriam was gliding back to the house, and Marcus came towards him, walking like a man in his sleep. Only Nehushta stood where she was, her eyes fixed upon the ground as though she were reasoning with herself. Still like a man in a dream, Marcus passed him within touch of his outstretched ...

— Pearl-Maiden • H. Rider Haggard

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