GLIDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gliding mean? 

• GLIDING (noun)
  The noun GLIDING has 1 sense:

1. the activity of flying a glider

  Familiarity information: GLIDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLIDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of flying a glider

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

glide; gliding; sailing; sailplaning; soaring

Hypernyms ("gliding" is a kind of...):

flight; flying (an instance of traveling by air)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gliding"):

hang gliding (gliding in a hang glider)

paragliding; parasailing (gliding in a parasail)

Derivation:

glide (fly in or as if in a glider plane)

 Context examples 

A species of Gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped, bacterium in the phylum Bacteroidetes that are motile by gliding.

(Flavobacterium, NCI Thesaurus)

It beckoned, gliding noiselessly before him down a corridor as dark and cold as any tomb.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Friday, December 13, when Mars will contact Neptune, the planet of unconditional love, and the transiting moon will boost this day even further by gliding through Cancer.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

These findings support the hypothesis flight could have evolved up from the ground, in contrast to models in which active flapping flight evolved after gliding, a passive form of flight.

(Scientific study suggests dinosaurs flapped their wings as they ran, Wikinews)

Do you feel a creeping, shrinking sensation, Watson, when you stand before the serpents in the Zoo, and see the slithery, gliding, venomous creatures, with their deadly eyes and wicked, flattened faces?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As Buck slid along with the obscureness of a gliding shadow, his nose was jerked suddenly to the side as though a positive force had gripped and pulled it.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The silent gliding on of my existence—the unseen, unfelt progress of my life—from childhood up to youth!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

By this time the schooner and her little consort were gliding pretty swiftly through the water; indeed, we had already fetched up level with the camp-fire.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus.

(Ankle Joint, NCI Thesaurus)

It was three o'clock; the church bell tolled as I passed under the belfry: the charm of the hour lay in its approaching dimness, in the low-gliding and pale-beaming sun.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)