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gliding

/ ˈɡlaɪdɪŋ /

noun

  1. 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.

The game consists of flooding the bathroom with water, hiking up your skirt, and then gliding over the stream.

But 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.

Contestants in the Miss India pageant are gliding across a stage in Mumbai, eyes shining.

Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.

Before Ripperda could unclasp his lips to reply, the stranger had opened the door, and passed through it like a gliding shadow.

But he kept his eyes upon the gliding river rather than on those dark hills crowded with their ancient dead.

As soon as Baroudi was perceived by the attendants, there was a soft and gliding movement to serve him.

He saw, at any rate, the figures close together, as if the man came gliding straight into her arms.

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