Meaning

4 senses
  1. (intransitive)To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.

    gleiten

    скользи́тьskolʹzítʹ

    move smoothly and effortlessly

  2. (intransitive)To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.

    gleiten

    плани́роватьplanírovatʹ

  3. (transitive)To cause to glide.

    gleiten lassen

  4. To pass with a glide, as the voice.

Examples

57 sentences
  1. Tom doesn't want Mary to go hang gliding.

    Том не хотів, щоб Мері полетіла на дельтаплані. — deniko

  2. I nearly killed myself hang gliding.

  3. I almost killed myself hang gliding.

  4. I can't picture Tom hang gliding.

  5. Do you consider hang gliding dangerous?

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly:
To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly:
To cause to glide:

Origin

From Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, fro

From Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰleydʰ-.

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Forms

glides, gliding, glided, glided
Base formglide · to glide
3rd person singularglides
Present participlegliding
Past simpleglided / glid
Past participleglided / glid / glidden

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyglide
he, she, itglides

Past simpleLesson

all personsglided

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave glided
he, she, ithas glided

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill glide

Synonyms

2 synonyms
to move effortlessly:coastB1slideB2

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
glide — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto