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

At about 7 a.m., around 300 dancers — boys and girls, men and women — took turns glissading across the concrete at 44th Street and Seventh Avenue, which was transformed into a scene from “Fame.”

From New York Times

She went to see Lauren Anderson — one of the first black ballerinas to become a principal dancer in a major company — glissade across the stage at the Houston Ballet.

From New York Times

And, on another axis, why limit your sexual expression to a single definition when you can glissade along the Kinsey scale?

From New York 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