Crossword clues for glissade
glissade
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glissade \Glis`sade"\, n. [F., fr. glisser to slip.]
A sliding, as down a snow slope.
--Tyndall.A dance step consisting of a glide or slide to one side.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in dancing sense, 1832 (v.), 1843 (n.), from French glissade, from glisser "to slip, slide" (13c.), from a Germanic source (cognate with Dutch glissen), from Proto-Germanic *glidan "to glide" (see glide).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps (http://en.wikipedi
org/wiki/Glissade%20(climbing)). 2 (context ballet English) A gliding step beginning and ending in a demi-plié in second position (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20ballet%23Glissade). 3 A move in some dances such as the galop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glissade). 4 (context fencing English) A fencing move that may disarm the opponent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glissade). v
To perform a glissade.
WordNet
n. (ballet) a gliding or sliding step in ballet
v. perform a glissade, in ballet
Wikipedia
Glissading is the act of descending a steep snow- or scree-covered slope via a controlled slide on one's feet or buttocks. It is an alternative to other descent methods such as plunge stepping, and may be used to expedite a descent, or simply for the thrill. Glissading involves higher risks of injuries than other forms of descending.
Glissade may mean:
- glissade (climbing), a way to descend a snow-covered slope
- glissade (dance move), a move in some dances such as the galop
- glissade (ballet), a ballet dance move
- glissade (fencing), a fencing move that may disarm the opponent
Glissade was a roller coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia. The Glissade stood where the Izzy/Wild Maus once stood and today The Curse of DarKastle exists in this spot.
Usage examples of "glissade".
I had heard other gossip: a drunken horologe who claimed the Timekeeper kept a double to attend to the affairs of the Order while he took to the streets at night, hunting like a lone wolf down the glissades for anyone so foolish as to plot against him.
Boldly I performed the chasse en avant and chasse en arriere glissade, until, when it came to my turn to move towards her and I, with a comic gesture, showed her the poor glove with its crumpled fingers, she laughed heartily, and seemed to move her tiny feet more enchantingly than ever over the parquetted floor.
After a choreographic discussion -- pas battus, entrechats, and brisés dessus-dessous-- the wicked old gardener agrees, exits left, and the young man scares away -- pas chassé, and glissades in all directions -- all the birds, the last being a particularly impudent blackbird -- tours en l'air.
Nirgal joined the others and dropped over the rim and then they were all in a mad descent, clacking and jumping, and though Nirgal’s legs were rubbery his endless days of lung-gom now served him well, for he dropped past most of the others as he hopped down boulders and glissaded down little rockslides, jumping, holding balance, using his hands, making great desperate leaps, like everyone else utterly locked into the moment, into the striving for a quick descent without a bad fall.
Nirgal joined the others and dropped over the rim and then they were all in a mad descent, clacking and jumping, and though Nirgal's legs were rubbery his endless days of lung-gom now served him well, for he dropped past most of the others as he hopped down boulders and glissaded down little rockslides, jumping, holding balance, using his hands, making great desperate leaps, like everyone else utterly locked into the moment, into the striving for a quick descent without a bad fall.
A seal raised its head snake-like from a rock, and then with a jerking movement reached ' the weed growth at the edge and glissaded without a splash into the water.
A tapestry of sound and music, words and tone, cadences weaving as threads, glissades, apparent cacophonies, the final, triumphant cadenza.
Her fingers raced over the keys of the spinet, wringing skeins of melody from them in complex arpeggios and glissades and counterpoint.
And - most amazingly - even the seeds of the insectivorous pitcher plant - which traps its prey in pools of chemically laced water on leaves sporting a glissading escarpment of downward-pointing hairs and narcotic-laced nectar -even the tiny seeds of this plant trap prey by means of slime and poison, then digesting the surrounding mulch of decaying creatures as they germinate, forming into seedlings and plants.
At least until teenagers looking for a thrill and adults in a serious hurry found that nine times out of ten, one could keep the sledfoils in the groove just by glissading -- that is, by using one or more ice axes in the self-arrest position and keeping the speed low enough to stay in the trough.
His back slammed against the mountain, hard enough to knock the wind from his lungs, and then he was glissading, feet first, out-of-control, skittering down the rocky chute, hurtling down the mountain.