1. coasting - Noun
2. coasting - Adjective
3. coasting - Verb
of Coast
Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast.
A sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying on a coasting trade.
Sliding down hill; sliding on a sled upon snow or ice.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhat is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks. Camille Paglia
They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise. Arrian
They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world. Robert Toombs
As historian Forrest McDonald wrote, "A loophole had been discovered" in the initial enactment, "namely that coasting vessels, and fishing and whaling boats" had been exempt from the embargo, and they had been circumventing it, primarily via Canada. Source: Internet
Former governor Jerry Brown, coasting to victory in the 2014 gubernatorial election, called the constitutional amendment “a sacred doctrine that should never be questioned.” Source: Internet
A planetary swing-by could also be employed similar to what is done with coasting spacecraft, but good alignments might not exist due to the requirements for overall optimization of the trajectory. Source: Internet