gliding

/ (ˈɡlaɪdɪŋ) /

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noun

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.
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The game consists of flooding the bathroom with water, hiking up your skirt, and then gliding over the stream.
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But Tom Boswell makes it all look easy, gliding between the seasons with appreciation and acerbic wit.
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The world economy is gliding past crises and the markets have got their mojo back.
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Contestants in the Miss India pageant are gliding across a stage in Mumbai, eyes shining.
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Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
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Before Ripperda could unclasp his lips to reply, the stranger had opened the door, and passed through it like a gliding shadow.
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But he kept his eyes upon the gliding river rather than on those dark hills crowded with their ancient dead.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
As soon as Baroudi was perceived by the attendants, there was a soft and gliding movement to serve him.
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He saw, at any rate, the figures close together, as if the man came gliding straight into her arms.
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