gliding
/ (ˈɡlaɪdɪŋ) /
the sport of flying in a glider
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Pros: Getting to picture yourself gliding efficiently through town, perhaps en route to a snowy assignation.
So You Are Enduring a Temporarily Paralyzing Winter Storm | Kelly Williams Brown | February 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe game consists of flooding the bathroom with water, hiking up your skirt, and then gliding over the stream.
‘Nymphomaniac,’ Lars von Trier’s Icy Orgy of Sex and Self-Loathing, Bows At Sundance | Marlow Stern | January 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut Tom Boswell makes it all look easy, gliding between the seasons with appreciation and acerbic wit.
The world economy is gliding past crises and the markets have got their mojo back.
Political Tensions Takes Center Stage at World Economic Forum | Daniel Gross | January 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTContestants in the Miss India pageant are gliding across a stage in Mumbai, eyes shining.
Models vs. Militants: Nisha Pahuja’s Film Shows Two Worlds of Indian Women | Abigail Pesta | May 5, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
Expressive Voice Culture | Jessie Eldridge SouthwickBefore Ripperda could unclasp his lips to reply, the stranger had opened the door, and passed through it like a gliding shadow.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterBut he kept his eyes upon the gliding river rather than on those dark hills crowded with their ancient dead.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodAs soon as Baroudi was perceived by the attendants, there was a soft and gliding movement to serve him.
Bella Donna | Robert HichensHe saw, at any rate, the figures close together, as if the man came gliding straight into her arms.
The Wave | Algernon Blackwood
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