[
UK
/ɡlˈaɪdɐ/
]
[ US /ˈɡɫaɪdɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɫaɪdɝ/ ]
NOUN
- aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces
How To Use glider In A Sentence
- Most pseudocheirids have a strongly prehensile tail (weakly so in the great glider and rock ringtail).
- At twenty thousand meters, with the pods still traveling at a high velocity, parachutes billowed out from the same boxes that had contained the glider wings.
- Music leaked softly from the windows behind him, when he'd resumed his seat on the glider.
- Smoking and sputtering, the glider zoomed away, with the Green Goblin desperately trying to pull the webbing from his eyes. SPIDER-MAN®: THE ADVENTURES OF SPIDER-MAN
- Leonardo's inventions - a parachute, hang-glider, tank, underwater diving suit and robot - are built and put to the test for the first time, 500 years after he designed them.
- Abruptly, he pushes forward on the joystick again and the glider drops.
- A mission involving three gliders would explore the composition and stratigraphy of the walls of Valles Marineris in ways not possible for orbiters and landers.
- The hang-glider fabric would become clothing, come winter, for refugees who would be glad to have it. I Don’t Understand ?
- Streamlining is important in gliders to reduce drag forces.
- The third airlift was a total disaster, with bundles dropping into enemy hands and planes and gliders crash-landing throughout the area.