glide

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To move smoothly and easily, as if without effort.

   The skaters glided gracefully across the ice.

2. 2
   verb

   To fly through the air without using power, like a bird with still wings.

   The eagle glided silently on the warm air currents.

3. 3
   noun

   A smooth, effortless movement.

   She crossed the dance floor with an elegant glide.

From Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰleydʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian glide, glydzje, Low German glieden, Dutch glijden, German gleiten, Norwegian Nynorsk gli, Danish glide, Swedish glida, Finnish liitää.

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