gliding

Speech parts

1. gliding - Noun

2. gliding - Adjective

3. gliding - Verb

Meaning

of Glide

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sailing glide soaring sailplaning aeronautics coast wheeling plane flow fly slip cadent volar moving flight
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Antonyms

rusty static coarse grating jerk gruff
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Hypernyms

flight flying

Hyponyms

paragliding parasailing hang gliding

Phrases with the word

hand gliding gliding boat fish gliding through the air gliding machine gliding lizards gliding lizard

Anagrams

gilding

Examples

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see not to eat, not for love, but only gliding. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness-she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another. Homer

Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters. Herman Melville

In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind. Orville Wright

Ye realms, yet unreveal'd to human sight, Ye gods who rule the regions of the night, Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relate The mystic wonders of your silent state! John Dryden

Close letter words and terms

gliderport glideslope Glidewell gliding angle gliding ant gliding bacteria