Glide
verb
To move smoothly and continuously along as if without effort.
The ice skater seemed to glide effortlessly across the rink.
Often appears as...
- glide smoothly
- glide effortlessly
verb
To fly through the air without flapping wings.
The eagle glided high above the mountains.
Often appears as...
- glide gracefully
- glide through air
noun
A smooth continuous movement.
He watched the sailboats with their effortless glide through the water.
Often appears as...
- effortless glide
- smooth glide
verb
To pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly.
He tried to glide unnoticed through the crowd.
Often appears as...
- glide unnoticed
- glide in
noun
A smooth transition from one note or tone to another.
He loved the beautiful glide in the singer's voice.
Often appears as...
- beautiful glide
- musical glide
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Academic
noun
The act of gliding on a smooth surface supported by a fluid film.
The machine operates on a principle of glide and slide.
Often appears as...
- machine glide
- surface glide
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Technical
verb
To move smoothly and continuously along as if without effort.
The ice skater seemed to glide effortlessly across the rink.
Often appears as...
- glide smoothly
- glide effortlessly
verb
To fly through the air without flapping wings.
The eagle glided high above the mountains.
Often appears as...
- glide gracefully
- glide through air
noun
A smooth continuous movement.
He watched the sailboats with their effortless glide through the water.
Often appears as...
- effortless glide
- smooth glide
verb
To pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly.
He tried to glide unnoticed through the crowd.
Often appears as...
- glide unnoticed
- glide in
noun
A smooth transition from one note or tone to another.
He loved the beautiful glide in the singer's voice.
Often appears as...
- beautiful glide
- musical glide
Usage tips
Academic
noun
The act of gliding on a smooth surface supported by a fluid film.
The machine operates on a principle of glide and slide.
Often appears as...
- machine glide
- surface glide
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/2Physical Movement
Often used to describe graceful or elegant physical motion without jerky movements.
The gymnast seemed to glide over the floor exercise mat.
Pro Tip 2/2Effortless Action
Implies doing something with ease, without visible difficulty or hard work.
The professional dancer glided across the stage with great poise.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Movement
Often used to describe graceful or elegant physical motion without jerky movements.
The gymnast seemed to glide over the floor exercise mat.
Pro Tip 2/2Effortless Action
Implies doing something with ease, without visible difficulty or hard work.
The professional dancer glided across the stage with great poise.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Movement
Often used to describe graceful or elegant physical motion without jerky movements.
The gymnast seemed to glide over the floor exercise mat.
Pro Tip 2/2Effortless Action
Implies doing something with ease, without visible difficulty or hard work.
The professional dancer glided across the stage with great poise.
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Human sperm vs. the...
allowing it to glide through slime. Maybe it's no surprise that these guys are also responsible for stomach ulcers. So, when you look really closely at our bodies and the world around us, you can see all sorts of tiny creatures finding clever ways to get around in a sticky situation.
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Mark Shaw: One very dry...
the mud hits, the concrete hits, and it glides right off. So if I put this inside this water here, you can see a silver reflective coating around it, and that silver reflective coating is the layer of air that's protecting the water from touching the paddle, and it's dry.
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How turtle shells...
Sea turtles have flatter, lighter shells for streamlined gliding through the water. Land-dwelling tortoises, meanwhile, have domed shells that can slip free of predators’ jaws and help them turn right-side up if they fall on their backs. Leatherback and softshell turtles
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Things you learned in...
glide insistently may Jesus long speed to lock with each so that's our lives love in a single person those are the things that we can do with either high speed video or like I said that particular basketball has a ray of sensors in it that allows us to make
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Could you survive the...
becoming less dense and rising towards the surface. You can’t swim fast, but your narrow build makes you maneuverable. This is especially important since predators could spring out of the darkness at any moment. In fact, a fangtooth is gliding beneath you.
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An underwater art...
And grey angelfish glide silently overhead. And the amazing response we've had to these works tells me that we've managed to plug into something really primal, because it seems that these images translate across the world,
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Endangered Wandering...
years the albatross is long narrow wings allow them to glide on air currents traveling for thousands of miles across the surface of the oceans they feed on fish and squid from some of the world's most inhospitable seas
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Why do your knuckles...
like hyaluronic acid and lubricin. Synovial fluid is more or less the texture of egg yolk and its primary purpose is to cushion the bones and help them glide past each other. It also contains phagocytic cells
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Corruption, wealth and...
for the locations of old boatyards, oar makers and ferry stations, imprinting the memory of the boat-building trades that once kept life in the most serene republic gliding along at a steady clip.
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The Life of a Photograph...
rock walks across it and steps off and four photographs from recent work in the Amazon nine Birds approached gliding in for a landing what gives this picture of life to me is it's
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Human sperm vs. the...
allowing it to glide through slime. Maybe it's no surprise that these guys are also responsible for stomach ulcers. So, when you look really closely at our bodies and the world around us, you can see all sorts of tiny creatures finding clever ways to get around in a sticky situation.
Video examples
Mark Shaw: One very dry...
the mud hits, the concrete hits, and it glides right off. So if I put this inside this water here, you can see a silver reflective coating around it, and that silver reflective coating is the layer of air that's protecting the water from touching the paddle, and it's dry.
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How turtle shells...
Sea turtles have flatter, lighter shells for streamlined gliding through the water. Land-dwelling tortoises, meanwhile, have domed shells that can slip free of predators’ jaws and help them turn right-side up if they fall on their backs. Leatherback and softshell turtles
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Things you learned in...
glide insistently may Jesus long speed to lock with each so that's our lives love in a single person those are the things that we can do with either high speed video or like I said that particular basketball has a ray of sensors in it that allows us to make
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Could you survive the...
becoming less dense and rising towards the surface. You can’t swim fast, but your narrow build makes you maneuverable. This is especially important since predators could spring out of the darkness at any moment. In fact, a fangtooth is gliding beneath you.
Video examples
An underwater art...
And grey angelfish glide silently overhead. And the amazing response we've had to these works tells me that we've managed to plug into something really primal, because it seems that these images translate across the world,
Video examples
Endangered Wandering...
years the albatross is long narrow wings allow them to glide on air currents traveling for thousands of miles across the surface of the oceans they feed on fish and squid from some of the world's most inhospitable seas
Video examples
Why do your knuckles...
like hyaluronic acid and lubricin. Synovial fluid is more or less the texture of egg yolk and its primary purpose is to cushion the bones and help them glide past each other. It also contains phagocytic cells
Video examples
Corruption, wealth and...
for the locations of old boatyards, oar makers and ferry stations, imprinting the memory of the boat-building trades that once kept life in the most serene republic gliding along at a steady clip.
Video examples
The Life of a Photograph...
rock walks across it and steps off and four photographs from recent work in the Amazon nine Birds approached gliding in for a landing what gives this picture of life to me is it's
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Sunita Williams
American Astronaut
You can hover in the air if you want, or you can push off of something and glide through the air - just like a fish. I also think it is like being a fish, since you can catch food in your mouth easily because it is suspended in the air - just like when you put fish food in a tank - the fish swim up to it, open their mouths, and eat the food.
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Stephen Root
American Actor
In TV, when you're doing guest roles, you're gliding into a zone where people are already very comfortable. They go in and go to work every day. You're coming in, and it's a brand-new environment, so you have to get it... and then you're gone again.
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Giacomo Casanova
Italian Celebrity
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
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Laurel Clark
American Astronaut
I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over.
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Kid Cudi
American Musician
I like to get one pair of shoes and wear them till they're dirty. Besides, I don't walk - I glide, like butter. Float like a vampire. I'm like Louis Vuitton, but smoother. He wishes he were like me.
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Jake Pavelka
American Celebrity
I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.
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Salman Khan
Indian Actor
Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don't have to show that I am working very hard.
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Max Muller
German Educator
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
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Micky Dolenz
American Actor
I am extremely lucky; I've never been ill - although about 20 years ago I broke my right arm hang gliding.
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Debi Thomas
American Athlete
I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
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Sunita Williams
American Astronaut
You can hover in the air if you want, or you can push off of something and glide through the air - just like a fish. I also think it is like being a fish, since you can catch food in your mouth easily because it is suspended in the air - just like when you put fish food in a tank - the fish swim up to it, open their mouths, and eat the food.
Quote examples
Stephen Root
American Actor
In TV, when you're doing guest roles, you're gliding into a zone where people are already very comfortable. They go in and go to work every day. You're coming in, and it's a brand-new environment, so you have to get it... and then you're gone again.
Quote examples
Giacomo Casanova
Italian Celebrity
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
Quote examples
Laurel Clark
American Astronaut
I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over.
Quote examples
Kid Cudi
American Musician
I like to get one pair of shoes and wear them till they're dirty. Besides, I don't walk - I glide, like butter. Float like a vampire. I'm like Louis Vuitton, but smoother. He wishes he were like me.
Quote examples
Jake Pavelka
American Celebrity
I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.
Quote examples
Salman Khan
Indian Actor
Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don't have to show that I am working very hard.
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Max Muller
German Educator
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
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Micky Dolenz
American Actor
I am extremely lucky; I've never been ill - although about 20 years ago I broke my right arm hang gliding.
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Debi Thomas
American Athlete
I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
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