Synonyms:
glide, gliding, sailplaning, soaring, sailing
Meaning: the activity of flying a glider
Usage examples
"Oh, I don't know," cried Miss Greeb, tossing her head and gliding towards the door.
In the midst of it all were to be seen the swans gliding in and out among the boats.
The red dragon was slain, and the white one, gliding through a cleft in the rock, disappeared.
He was alone in space, gliding away from the ship, with oxygen hissing softly through the valve and ticking away his life.
There was no moon, and Le Loup's keen imagination pictured the dark slayer, Solomon Kane, gliding through the blackness, a shadow among shadows.
In the heat of the day there is an all-pervading rustling sound, caused by the fluttering of myriad insects and the gliding of lizards and snakes.
He felt instinctively it was madness to sit on here in the thin gliding mist that had gathered in swathes above the grass, milk-pale in the rising moon.
He was gliding swiftly toward the earth, and, with the plan in his mind of administering some sort of punishment to the bully, he aimed the machine directly at him.
I admired the short trills in the left hand, which were trilled out quite independently, as if by a second player; the gliding ease of the cadence marked dolcissimo.
These serpents, gliding into his cradle, were on the point of biting the child when he, with his own hands, seized them and strangled the life out of their slimy bodies.