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gliding

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the activity of flying a glider [syn: glide , sailplaning , soaring , sailing ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders. Gliding may also refer to: Gliding (dance) , a group of footwork-oriented dance techniques and styles Gliding flight , flight in the absence ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The action or motion of something that glides. 2 The hobby, sport(,) or act of flying a glider. vb. (present participle of glide English)

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Birds, bats and gliding mammals simply take to the air. ▪ Characteristic hunting technique of gliding low over ground with wings slightly canted upwards. ▪ Crippled in a hang gliding accident, Gary has fought his disability and ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glide \Glide\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glided ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gliding .] [AS. gl[=i]dan; akin to D. glijden, OHG. gl[=i]tan, G. gleiten, Sw. glida, Dan. glide, and prob. to E. glad.] To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent ...

Usage examples of gliding.

Bees come upon the light wind, gliding with it, but with their bodies aslant across the line of current.

To the north he saw a fleet of six ships and a dozen bateaux gliding southward toward Ticonderoga.

Above my head, that unpleasant, snake-necked bird came gliding back towards the ruins, and I saw that its beack was hooked around a fish that writhed and struggled helplessly.

Andy, and as if noticing his disapproval, the Chickadee spread its wings and hopped into the air, flapping, gliding to another rooftop down the block.

He had often watched the white-browed coucals coming in on a long gliding flight to take cover here amongst the reeds in the breeding season.

Captain Craddock took a gliding step inwards, his face enigmatically hinting a sense of regret which was somehow ominous.

Down the street, a ripple of bows and curtsies moved through the crowd, and then the shifting throng opened to reveal Tarna Feir, gliding along like a queen walking through a pigsty, the red-fringed shawl looped over her arms like a blatant banner.

As for the white shark, the white gliding ghostliness of repose in that creature, when beheld in his ordinary moods, strangely tallies with the same quality in the Polar quadruped.

Revel, the dancers spinning and gliding in the streets, the falconers displaying the talents of their birds, the tournaments of strength and speed and sword skill waged by men of fighting age, the gleaning remained its most important element, just as it lay at the core of the traveling festivals found in the other kingdoms of the Forelands.

And there, gliding in, was Niffy Gliff, the combination griffin Pegasus with the horn.

As we are gliding along, she tells me that, one month before, Steffani had stopped in her neighbourhood for necessary repairs to his travelling-carriage, and that, on the same day he had made her acquaintance at a house where she had gone with her mother for the purpose of offering their congratulations to a newly-married lady.

In the company of Fox and with a light breeze ruffling my jabot and cooling my overheated face, I believed myself to be gliding towards my answer.

He smiled as Jarg sent the raft gliding towards the other selected point.

If you had seen those hardy and sinewy Frenchmen gliding in the dusk of evening from cottage to cottage, passing the word that the Americans had arrived, saying airy things and pinching one another as they met and hurried on, you would have thought something very amusing and wholly jocund was in preparation for the people of Vincennes.

The man began to move in slow, gliding thrusts, and Kadin continued his stroking on her clit.