to glide
- verb
- /ɡlaɪd/
- You will notice that the dispenser runs effortlessly and glides along the edge, making a neat line.
- slide and glide
- glide gracefully
- glide effortlessly
And he drifts back into the woods, glides and just disappears.
- And he drifts back into the woods, glides and just disappears.
- The blade just gently, just gently glides, giving me such a smooth shave.
- Excuse me, but it does glide on very smoothly.
- This like glides through my hair so effortlessly.
- There's blood trails across the wall where his hands have like, glided on the walls.
Examples
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The goddess in blue gauze glided through the trees, right over to where I lay.
Fiction book (1991) -
Really, this concealer just glides on the skin so smoothly.
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You should just glide right over.
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I wanted to glide and spin and fly like they did.
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Excuse me, but it does glide on very smoothly.
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Let's use our bodies to show what it means to glide and slide.
Academic text (2013) -
Let the airplane glide, and bleed off speed when you touch down.
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Participants were instructed to glide slowly from their lowest to highest note on an ah vowel.
Academic text (2014) -
The blade just gently, just gently glides, giving me such a smooth shave.
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The swan gracefully glided across the surface of the lake.
Synonyms
Move through the air using wings or in a plane
To move smoothly along a surface
To move quietly and easily, often without being noticed
To move quickly and smoothly in a wide motion
To move through the air above a place, for example a plane or bird
To fly high and freely in the air like a bird or glider
To move smoothly and easily through the air or over a surface
To move quickly through the air like a bird
To move past something while in the air
Move quickly and lightly across the surface of water
To move something gently over a surface
To move quickly and lightly just above a surface
To glide smoothly through the air while slowly coming down
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
A downward path a plane follows when approaching a runway guided by instruments
How Smooth
Surface Forms
Etymology
Glide comes from an old English word glīdan meaning 'to slip' and is like the German word gleiten. So to glide is to move smoothly and effortlessly, as if you are sliding without any push.