How To Use Gliding In A Sentence

Some paragliding pilots liken their sport to paddling a Class V river while blindfolded.
He it was who, in the 1850s, persuaded his reluctant coachman to make the first gliding flight in history, across the valley at Brompton.
The weather forecast has put a question mark against the chance of doing any gliding tomorrow.
The shot was filmed with the camera gliding down the empty staircase.
You might have noticed more and more people of all ages gliding down the streets on skateboards, sliding along walls and flicking and spinning their boards with various degrees of success.

I gave up trying not to smile as we danced. It was too easy to lose myself in his eyes and arms. I wanted to move like this with him forever, gliding across the gym floor to nonexistent music.
I gave up trying not to smile as we danced. It was too easy to lose myself in his eyes and arms. I wanted to move like this with him forever, gliding across the gym floor to nonexistent music.
But then one day something catches your eye, something beautiful, something gliding along like a panther, something with four wheels and a hooter, yes a car!
The spaceship then drops into gliding flight and fires its rocket motor while climbing steeply for more than a minute, reaching a speed of 2,500 mph.
Slowly, I made my way downstairs, gliding my hand along the smooth wooden banister.
danza," which is kin to Mexican airs and to the Cuban "guaracha" and may be compared to a flowing brook, now gliding along serenely, now rushing in cascades. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future
It left her leaving, gliding away gladly towards the kitchen. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
However, the many lineages of gliding animals today, including a host of lizards, squirrels, marsupials, and colugos show no signs of turning into flappers anytime soon.
I could softly talk into the microphone and record the type of clouds billowing above, the look of the dew on the grass, the hawk gliding overhead, the ripe dewberries at my feet.
Helicopters are turbine powered and have to go to a major airfield or an RAF station to refuel, whereas a piston-engined aircraft can refuel at practically any flying or gliding club.
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Then, in a minute, the Station relapsed into stupor as the stoker of the Cattle Train, the last to depart, went gliding out of it, wiping the long nose of his oil-can with a dirty pocket-handkerchief. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
The "mummery" consisted in slow, gliding motions, in whirlings about intended to be graceful, in slow liftings of the hands upward, and in the beating of the drums. Boy Scouts on Motorcycles With the Flying Squadron
The rambles are £5, for example, while gliding was £30.
Papers twirled about effortlessly and left their posts gliding to the ground and crumpling beneath the wheels of my haphazard vehicle.
Looking out over the Indian Ocean, the sails of dhow fishing vessels are dwarfed by transoceanic cargo ships gliding into the port.
Qualified in parasailing and paragliding, Rao has more than 350 skydives in different parts of the country to his credit.
From this angle at night, you can only really see the lit top deck of buses gliding quietly across the bridge - I've often thought it looks like some highly futuristic transport system.
Gliding is in some senses a modified form of parachuting, in which lift forces are produced by an airfoil-type membrane, so most gliders could also be considered part-time parachuters.
He moved the book so that it was situated between them and began to read, gliding his index finger over the words.
The dragon, gliding across its vast emptiness, was a mere gilded fly in a banqueting hall.
A magnificent convolvulus hawk moth was spotted by the Suffolk lepidopterists gliding in downriver along their bank. Wildwood
The sky over Britain at present rarely fails to offer the sight of one gliding by. Times, Sunday Times
And then I saw it -- the high, white bow of that fishing cruiser gliding in towards the end of the pontoon. HIGH STAND
But actually what you find in reality is sometimes quite hideous: I was in Nepal hang-gliding and strapped to someone operating it. KiÅ¡a Lala: Mythographers: Recalling The Future, Foretelling The Past
Now we are promised we will be gliding on air. Times, Sunday Times
Ceilings were painted in Michelangelo-themed angelic pictures, as well as the pictures on the walls lined with the broad spanning wings of seraphs and the pursuit of gliding in avian grace towards the luminescent clouds.
The line, which is preferably a flexible combination wire-and-cord cable, is stretched between the winding-drum on the track and detachably secured to the flying or gliding machine, preferably by means of a trip-hoop, or else held in the hand of the operator, so that the operator may readily detach the same from the flying-machine when the desired height is attained. Flying Machines: construction and operation; a practical book which shows, in illustrations, working plans and text, how to build and navigate the modern airship
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Fish were gliding about in the lake.
I gave up trying not to smile as we danced. It was too easy to lose myself in his eyes and arms. I wanted to move like this with him forever, gliding across the gym floor to nonexistent music.
Several groups such as the Rhacophorus gliding frogs, the megophryid litter toads, and various ranid groups stand out for their local evolutionary radiations, conservation concern, and eyecatching appearance. Biological diversity in Indo-Burma
Nevertheless, persistence paid off, and man was finally able to soar aloft with improved gliding equipment.
In a gliding dive inclined at an angle to the horizontal the bird must keep the wings partly open to provide the lift needed to maintain a constant glide angle.
We have done a lot of work in the wind tunnels since and in straight-line gliding I'm one of the fastest skiers in the world.
The speed column is the average ground speed (in miles per hour) gliding between thermals which should roughly correspond to the average air speed between thermals given the task.
There aren't many cuts - often a scene will take place before us in one shot, with the camera serenely gliding from one side of a room to the other.
They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in such diverse modes of life as climbers, burrowers, crawlers, aquatic forms, and even gliding types.
Portability as well as being able to be flown from hang gliding flight parks using hang glider tugs has been the criteria for design.
The canal itself was exactly what we had expected, a strip of water flanked on each side by sand dunes, and a stately procession of ships gliding quietly along.
They reminded me of bees and flies, and sometimes with a strong light on them they were like those small polished black and silvery-white beetles (Gyrinus) which we see in companies on the surface of pools and streams, perpetually gliding and whirling about in a sort of complicated dance. Afoot in England
Seaside visitors looking at the seagulls often see a rather odd one gliding by on stiff, straight wings. Times, Sunday Times
One is by pulling the string, as in the sitar, and the other is by gliding the fingers as in the sarangi or sarod.
Hang gliding and paragliding are allowed from the top of Windy Hill.
This month is the 75th anniversary of organised gliding in Australia.
I looked up and saw a serpent eagle gliding smoothly in the air.
The boat was slowly gliding through the water when suddenly we heard a big splash behind us.
The line, which is preferably a flexible combination wire-and-cord cable, is stretched between the winding-drum on the track and detachably secured to the flying or gliding machine, preferably by means of a trip-hoop, or else held in the hand of the operator, so that the operator may readily detach the same from the flying-machine when the desired height is attained. Flying Machines: Construction and Operation
I long watched the steppe over which his _ "kibitka" _ was rapidly gliding. The Daughter of the Commandant
Focus is gliding effortlessly away from the pavement and rising quietly and smoothly to cruising speed in the complete absence of both smoke and unpleasant noises. Times, Sunday Times
The departing male flaps off with an unusual gliding rhythm that Kemp suspects is a loser butterfly's submissive slink.
Unconventional sports, such as hang-gliding and hot-air ballooning, also continue to attract large numbers of students.
Outdoor sports are not only rock climbing or trekking but also include paragliding, hot-air ballooning and parasailing.
You may see stiff-winged fulmars gliding effortlessly, or hear them cackling as they sit precariously on ledges incubating single eggs.
If nothing better than linear progress prevails, its glacial not gliding pace will subvert hopes for equality for many generations.
The bat wing membrane still reveals traces of an apparatus originally constructed for gliding.
There is the occasional mishap, but statistically, gliding has been shown to be about as safe as normal airplane flying.
An aircraft would only have to head for the nearest flying or gliding club of which there are six in this area.
During her time with the squadron, she has tried her hand at both powered flying and gliding and has gained some fundraising experience.
Telli gave one last stroke on his paddle as they moved out of the shade of the trees into bright sunlight, then stopped, leaving the canoe gliding on through glassy calm water.
Therefore if work per stroke stays constant, enhanced drag resulting from greater fuselage speed during the downstroke limits mean stroke speed, and thus the potential for gliding after a stroke.
She bends over and kisses him gently there, her tongue gliding softly along.
Now his hands appeared on the sides of my face, cradling my head, gliding his fingers over my skin, then they pushed back and ran over my ears and the sound blocked everything else.
The gliding had a higher level of variation, but still was of a high quality.
During tracking sessions, notes were made on whether the falcons were gliding in circles or in a straight flight path.
The best thing you can do is to fly within gliding distance of a river. The Northland of Canada
In this instance, the truly brave thing for him to have done would have been to drop the whole military idea and take up abseiling or hang-gliding – indeed, any pursuit that only puts his own neck at risk. Farewell and good riddance to Little Britain | Barbara Ellen
Now we're racing, gliding past the San Francisco waterfront with a sea lion porpoising alongside.
You could tell from his run-up that he would bowl fast because he looked smooth and was gliding to the crease. The Sun
It's like the hang gliding of water sports," says river-bodyboard enthusiast Erik Fair, sounding as if he's also spent some time surfing. Hey Dude, Let's Catch Some Rapids
Nevertheless, persistence paid off, and man was finally able to soar aloft with improved gliding equipment.
The image of her gliding effortlessly towards us in slow motion will forever be imprinted in my memory.
One can listen to the rustle of woodland leaves or birdsong and view the scurrying wild animals or the graceful gliding swans.
The alcids (family Alcidae) have a high rate of energy expenditure during flight due to their flapping, nongliding technique.
I saw a flyingfish gliding out of the beautiful waters of the Caribbean. Archive 2006-09-01
Your July cover caption reflects that the Star Flyer is ‘gliding peacefully through the Aegean Sea’ when she actually rests at anchor, tied between two mooring buoys.
I wasn't very good at hang-gliding, I crashed my glider, cricked my neck.
Though I was going to save bungee jumping, canyoning and the rest of the wild stuff for when I wasn't playing at being an Edwardian vicar, I had decided that paragliding was a must.
Leaving balloons and various forms of gas-bags out of consideration, other experimenters, notably Langley and Lilienthal, antedated him in attempting the navigation of the air on aeroplanes, or flying machines, but none of them were wholly successful, and it remained for Chanute to demonstrate the practicability of what was then called the gliding machine. Flying Machines: Construction and Operation
In this paper, we put forward a method for the biped walking robot getting up planning, which can achieve the movement of getting up stably and glidingly.
Spend more of your gliding time flying straight in rising air and you'll raise your glide over the ground.
He methodised and regulated versification, insisting on rich and exact rhymes, condemning all licence and infirmity of structure, condemning harshness of sound, inversion, hiatus, negligence in accommodating the cesura to the sense, the free gliding of couplet into couplet. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
Sea lions gain speed by porpoising, leaping clear of the water and then gliding near the water's surface to minimize resistance.
He looks even better now with that single bang of silver from his retainer, gliding beautifully over pristine white teeth.
Consequently this is a largely sensory experience, gliding through subterranean nightclubs like a kind of freewheeling, visual jazz. Times, Sunday Times
After gliding maybe two steps, we would simultaneously fall down on our behinds.
So - even before I'd seen the movie - I'd decided that the Banshee and Great leonopteryx were inspired by (1) microraptors, (2) tapejarids and (3) proximity gliding suits, plus with a bit of raptor and megabat thrown in too. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
High above the skies will be filled with gliding cranes, storks and birds of prey.
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Years later, alone on a small lake a great distance from the city, near an invisible Canadian border where he settled in midlife, the boy who is now the age of his Uncle that afternoon on the river, skates backwards in the night, swiftly gliding around and around a frozen lake, extending his arms toward the darkness, pulling it with him. Norbert blei | skating backwards « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Paragliding is the act of strapping on a parachute and running off the top of a cliff, where upward air currents fill the parachute and allow you to glide.
I gave up trying not to smile as we danced. It was too easy to lose myself in his eyes and arms. I wanted to move like this with him forever, gliding across the gym floor to nonexistent music.
While the extendable flaps of indriids and some other primates are proportionally smaller than the patagia of most gliding and flying tetrapods, they are in the same place and seem to serve the same function, so it seems appropriate to give them this name. Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans)
At Cambridge he had taken up gliding and was a keen glider for many years thereafter. Times, Sunday Times
Endless stretches of water, gleaming rivers and gliding boats framed within the vibrant shades of green paddy fields and blue skies dotted with billowy white clouds.
This was an underwater version of gliding and parachuting, except that we had to avoid missing another drop-off.
The NRA states that accidental firearm deaths represent 0.5% of all accidental deaths (drowning, car, hang-gliding, you name it.) interesting but not comparable. The Volokh Conspiracy » “He Grabbed a Rifle, Held It Up, and Looked Right at Me.”
On a beautiful autumn morning in the nation's capital I am gliding above the city in the Air Force-piloted ADF balloon and it is magnificent.
I gave up trying not to smile as we danced. It was too easy to lose myself in his eyes and arms. I wanted to move like this with him forever, gliding across the gym floor to nonexistent music.
I'd had my fill of long, bronzed limbs gracefully gliding off into the sunset.
You could tell from his run-up that he would bowl fast because he looked smooth and was gliding to the crease. The Sun
His military training and interest in gliding meant that his exceptional flying skills were there when needed. Times, Sunday Times
Gough excels on gliding tracks where she can let the sled run and not have to oversteer, which is what Winterberg offers. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
His the scepter, His the throne, they moved to their positions as if hovering — or, better, as if gliding on sharpened metal edges across a frozen pond.
There is a paragliding school here, and there must have been twenty students out in the lawn yesterday practicing kiting their paragliders.
Then, with a shove he is off, gliding across 10 metres of slippery plastic, making a messy landing in the soapy water at the end of the run.
By day, gliding down the catwalk or presenting one of the world's most famous faces to the camera, she is the epitome of modern chic.
This is obtained by a slight outward rotatory movement of the lower end of the fibula and a stretching of the ligaments of the syndesmosis; this lateral movement is facilitated by a slight gliding at the tibiofibular articulation, and possibly also by the bending of the body of the fibula. III. Syndesmology. 7d. Talocrural Articulation or Ankle-joint
Both circled high over the estuary, sharply-pointed wings alternately flapping and gliding as the great birds searched for ducks and waders.
That queasy feeling when you are gliding on a large puddle is usually a momentary problem. The Sun
Activities including mountain biking and hiking, paragliding, canyoning and white-water rafting are all available. The Sun
The pitch-perfect trumpets punch out the jumped-up tune, the saxophones gliding smoothly beneath them. LOVE YOU MADLY
The girl didn't notice the gathering, ominous clouds, and as soon as she thought of going gliding, her mood changed, and she became happy again.
Wybrcathl floated into the air, a buoyant song, a nighthawk gliding on thermals. Etched in Bone
To wake up and see lochs and mountain peaks gliding past is to feel still more so. Times, Sunday Times
They are largely nocturnal, spending their days either down the burrows or out at sea gliding on stiff wings.
We all looked, and down came the graceful butterfly, gliding on its long emerald and black wings and settling at a puddle to drink.
The four sports were water skiing, sports parachuting, alpine skiing and gliding.
Children hoot in merriment as they ride their water scooters or turn into birds gliding across the sky while they para-sail.
The flying membranes of bats and of pterodactyls were probably used in gliding before they were of any use in flapping flight, and, as Spurway has pointed out, small membranes along the sides of the body are found in some arboreal mammals which do not even glide, and these folds of skin render such animals more difficult to see by eliminating the shadows they would otherwise cause. A Mystery for the Ages
A variety of adrenaline pumping activities including skydiving, rock-climbing, abseiling, canoeing/river adventures, gliding, kloofing and mountain biking, are available.
From here, there is a continuous series of gradations to gliding wings, and hence to flapping wings.
I saw about eight soaring hawks, four gliding herons, and roughly 2,000 dazzling picture-postcard views.
It's the kind of place where you'd expect to find a silver-haired patrician gliding across the floor in deck shoes dictating a letter to the Moroccan ambassador.
As a Manhattan Beach resident for nearly 11 years, I've driven past the hang-gliding school on Dockweiler Beach thousands of times. Jamie Reidy: Living Stupid
As Ever headed for the Oldsmobile, she jumped in a pile of snow and sent some white fluff powdering the air then gliding back into its pile.
When I looked round suddenly he was almost upon me, gliding between the pillars of the hypostyle hall towards me, slim and tall and deadly as an erect cobra. River God
Certain places, the Aire Saint-Mittre, for instance, are full of these dark "dominoes" brushing past one another, gliding softly in the warm nocturnal air. The Fortune of the Rougons
They merged and separated and moved on together, two shadows gliding through the shadowy twilight.
During developmental aggregation and predatory lifestyle , gliding motility is very important for myxobacteria.
Gliding and floating, soaring and diving, every twist and turn makes the hairs on my arms stand on end and a shiver tremble down my spine.
It freed itself from the halyard and slipped away into the darker water, a gliding wraith that sailed towards the closing doors of the deep. RUSHING TO PARADISE
Everything will be reminiscent of the old days of hang gliding.
Outdoor activities like hang-gliding, mountaineering and skiing were conducted at a secret camp in the backwoods of Pennsylvania. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
I watched him move across the kitchen, gliding in a perfect motion.
At one time it is a pompous banquet in a superb saloon festooned with gold, with tall lustrous windows and pale crimson curtains, the doge in his simarre dining with the magistrates in purple robes, and masked guests gliding over the floor; nothing is more elegant than the exquisite aristocracy of their small feet, their slender necks and their jaunty little three-cornered hats among skirts flounced with yellow or pearly gray silks. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One)
Though curious in the eyes of the young, it will surely make a grand spectacle to have these oldsters, splendidly outfitted, gliding along surrounded by all the glitz and glamour of the 21st Century.
There are several other kinds of lift, but a paragliding variometer is mostly used for thermal lift.
For no particular reason I glanced upward and there, gliding low over the trees, was a goshawk. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
That queasy feeling when you are gliding on a large puddle is usually a momentary problem. The Sun
We were gliding underneath a dead tree when an anhinga, unseen sunning itself on the limb above us, startled and took off with a stupendous flapping of wings. I DEFINE LOVE AS THINKING WELL ABOUT SOMEONE
Secondly, the motion of the spectrum was not gradatim or by steps, or moving of the feet, but by a kind of gliding, as children upon ice, or as a boat down a river, which punctually answers the description the ancients give of the motion of these Lamures. Dorothy Durant
For marvellous was the ease and beauty with which these ships went through their nautical movements; now as in chase of each other, now approaching as in conflict, veering off, darting aside, threading as it were a harmonious maze, gliding in and out, here, there, with the undulous celerity of the serpent. Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance
I wasn't very good at hang-gliding, I crashed my glider, cricked my neck.
You may see stiff-winged fulmars gliding effortlessly, or hear them cackling as they sit precariously on ledges incubating single eggs.
Developed from parachuting canopies, modern paragliders have replaced hang-gliding as the most popular aerial activity because of a relatively-simple control mechanism.
With a low growl of irritation, Simon continued to dash after his cousin, gliding along the cold, stony pavement like a blur of auburn, tan, and gray.
Paragliding is seen as safer, and is less of an unknown, as at some point a fair number of people have been parascending behind a boat, and the inevitable connection with parachutes is made, wrongly.
Perhaps my notion of wilderness is romantic and hopelessly out of date, but I have to say that I find paragliding an intrusion.
Because of the ease of transportation of paragliding, far more paragliding pilots go abroad, they make those trips more often, and hence more airtime flown abroad.
A longtime hang gliding aficionado, the Asotin-based flight instructor had flown just about every parasail, trike, plane and glider in every kind of setting.
With its swooping coachwork by H J Mulliner, the R-type Bentley Continental of the early 1950s is the most elegant of grand touring cars, equally at home gliding down the Autoroute du Soleil or sweeping through the Grace gates at Lord's. The lost boys rescued from wilderness years | Richard Williams
I imagined that soft voice moaning near my husband’s neck, the two intertwined with each other, skin gliding against skin, and the soft aroma of her perfume making him desire her more. A PRESENT PAST • by Patrice Horwitz
Your facial features are more prone to injury, so gliding the razor over those areas takes a little more skill.
It is all so peaceful and soothing; as peaceful and as soothing as the land through which you are gliding when once you have left behind smoky London and its interminable environs; for now you are in a land that was finished and plenished five hundred years ago and since then has not been altered in any material aspect whatsoever. Europe Revised
A sleek, almost silent, nonpolluting fuel cell-powered motorcycle is set to begin gliding down U.S. streets by the end of 2006.
The weather forecast has put a question mark against the chance of doing any gliding tomorrow.
I remember kicking off the side of the aircraft, gliding, and then popping my flotation.
Inventor of flexible wing technology wins Katharine Wright Award Gertrude Rogallo and husband developed prototype that led to hang gliding, ultralight flight
With the gear warning horn blaring and the prop windmilling, we continued gliding toward the airport with the stall warning horn intermittently chiming in.
I gave up trying not to smile as we danced. It was too easy to lose myself in his eyes and arms. I wanted to move like this with him forever, gliding across the gym floor to nonexistent music.
On a mudbank a hundred yards ahead and to my right, shapes were moving - long, brown, hideously scaly dragons waddling down to the water at frightening speed, plashing into the shallows and then gliding out inexorably to head us off, their half-submerged snouts rippling the surface. Fiancée
At the very least try tandem hang gliding, which is when an experienced pilot flies the glider with you. Thea Joselow: "Why Read an Author Who Hasn't Lived?" An Interview With Joe Quirk
The team will then free-fall down to a height of around 3,000 ft before opening their canopies and forming a ‘loose stack’ formation one on top of one another, gliding down to earth.
That queasy feeling when you are gliding on a large puddle is usually a momentary problem. The Sun
Glidings, including hang gliding and paragliding, are gaining popularity both as competitive and spectator sports.
He directed the officials to ensure that all safety measures were followed while undertaking adventure tourism and sports like paragliding, heli-skiing, river rafting and mountaineering.
Gliding by each other, they interjected small hops and skips into cross-stepping patterns.
When mean fuselage speed during the upstroke was only 18% of that during the downstroke, stroke frequency was constant with no gliding, so that power output was unchanged throughout descent.
The extra fold of skin that runs from their front legs to their back legs is called a gliding membrane. Urban WIldlife Watch - Flying Squirrels
There were couples gliding across the polished floor, dancing circles around the large room.
But there's also another theory that perhaps there were creatures actually living in the trees that had the downy feathering as well and flight started as an adaptation of the gliding between trees.
Advancing down the kloof with that stealthy gliding motion peculiar to the feline race, the leopard soon came in sight of a fine bushbok, whose sleek sides drew from him an irrepressible snicker of delight. The Settler and the Savage
Parachuting could have evolved into gliding and finally into active flight.
LAKE WHEELER -- On a chilly, sun-splashed spring afternoon, young rowers hefted spindly-looking boats called sculls into this old city reservoir and, with power and grace, oared their way across the wind-rippled water, gliding past the occasional bass boat or canoe. NewsObserver.com - Home
When he's finished writing, he reads his scripts out loud to me so that I can time them and offer suggestions for changes, his fingers gliding effortlessly across the Braille display.
Her hobbies include motorcycling, hang gliding and cliff diving.
It is also deemed the adventure capital of the world with its bungee jumping, white-water rafting, jet-boating, zorbing (rolling down a hill inside a giant inflatable ball), skydiving, abseiling and hang-gliding.
One day you're bungee jumping, the next day you're hang-gliding," she said. Shaping Up at the Pop-Up
Gliding works by having a gliding airfoil design that generates lift forces, keeping the animal in the air longer.
Reptiles are “_gliding_”; or, if they are twined into knots, “_nowed_.” The Handbook to English Heraldry
Males attract females and defend their territories with undulating flight displays, fluttering and gliding while calling.
Interrupted forms of locomotion, including wave-riding and porpoising when near the water surface or gliding when descending on a dive, enables marine mammals to mitigate some of these costs.
The sky over Britain at present rarely fails to offer the sight of one gliding by. Times, Sunday Times
During the workday, some will get outside for snowboarding, biking or hang-gliding in the Wasatch mountain range. Daredevil's Delight
Further, given that dihedral diminishes gliding performance, its infrequent use suggests that a premium is placed on maximizing lift to drag ratio (that is, maximizing efficiency) during gliding.
Marc Sluszny is a record-holder in bungee jumping from a hot-air balloon and in aerobatics hang-gliding.
It might have been gliding, using its flattened torso like an airfoil. THE MOAT AROUND MURCHESON'S EYE
Fowics were like flying squirrels back on Earth, except that their forelimb wings were more fully adapted for flying rather than gliding, and their heads, ears and snouts had a distinctly feline appearance. The Orphaned Worlds, 1st Draft, 1st Excerpt « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
It is a beautiful place, and the Blakistons 'house is situated within a stonecast of the Sea, and is a fine airy, lofty house, handsomely but plainly furnished; and Bessy looked very natural, gliding about as Mistress of it! New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Water moccasins had a nasty habit of gliding up and feeding on my catch, dangling from a stringer in the shallows.
Gliding up to me in smooth strides, he hooked his arm with mine, attempting a British accent.
Outdoor activities like hang-gliding, mountaineering and skiing were conducted at a secret camp in the backwoods of Pennsylvania. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
The movements permitted in the carpometacarpal articulations of the fingers are limited to slight gliding of the articular surfaces upon each other, the extent of which varies in the different joints. III. Syndesmology. 6h. Carpometacarpal Articulations
There is nothing like the instant gratification of jumping in to find, as the bubbles clear, that a gargantuan whale shark is sheltering in the shadow of your boat, or a posse of eagle rays is gliding by.

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