Glide

Quick meaning: Glide is a verb meaning (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.

Meaning

(intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
2. (transitive) To cause to glide.
3. (phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
4. The act of gliding.
5. (phonology) A transitional sound, especially a semivowel.
6. (fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
7. A bird, the glede or kite.

Example Sentences

The river glideth at his own sweet will:

With stealthy glide he approached the door of his master's room, listened, cautiously peeped in, then entered.

But it was 37-year-old Giggs who looked like a care-free teenager as he glided across the pitch he knows so well to breathtaking effect.

The water over which the boats glided was black and smooth, rising into huge foamless billows, the more terrible because they were silent.

Word Forms

• glides
• gliding
• glided
• glid
• glidden

Synonyms for glide

Depending on context, synonyms include coast, slide, semivowel, gliding, soaring, sailing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slide, soaring, sailing, semivowel, sailplaning, soar.

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