glissade

Example Sentences

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As I contemplated how to avoid glissading down the mountain, my phone powered down due to the cold and I lost my GPS tracker.

From Seattle Times

I recalled that David Hume, my teammate on the 1993 Everest expedition, had been killed on Makalu in 1995 doing exactly what I was proposing, glissading.

From Salon

But no perfectly executed quadruple pirouette is any more breathtaking than watching “old man” Federer race along the baseline and slide into a glissade to slam the ball cross-court into no-man’s corner pocket.

From Washington Post

Gore was glissading, or sliding, down the pass when he vanished into a hole that was deep beneath the snowpack.

From Seattle Times

Sheriff Brian Burnett says the teen was glissading, or sliding, down the pass Sunday afternoon when he disappeared into a hole that runs deep beneath the snowpack.

From Washington Times