Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gliding"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Glide \Glide\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glided}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Gliding}.] [AS. gl[=i]dan; akin to D. glijden, OHG.
gl[=i]tan, G. gleiten, Sw. glida, Dan. glide, and prob. to E.
glad.]
1. To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise,
violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily,
or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its
channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice.
The river glideth at his own sweet will.
--Wordsworth.
2. (Phon.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
gliding
n : the activity of flying a glider [syn: {glide}, {sailplaning},
{soaring}, {sailing}]
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