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glissade

[gli-sahd, -seyd] / glɪˈsɑd, -ˈseɪd /


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But the body found Monday was a bit south of the spot where hikers typically glissade — on a steep, icy section of trail known as the 99 Switchbacks, according to Stine.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2025

From hiking a few miles to learning how to use an ice ax and glissade down a mountain, we trained and grew stronger together to ultimately reach the summit.

From Seattle Times May 20, 2022

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 Oct. 15, 2018

You reverse what you tried for going up and aim for the sandiest places in order to glissade down.

From Slate Oct. 22, 2014

It was pouring downward—pouring itself downward—in a glorious, relentless glissade over the meadow slopes on a straight path for the village.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

But as I glissaded down the slope, it seemed to me also that a part of him might be pleased by our gesture, simply as an indication that his books had gotten read.

From Slate Oct. 22, 2014

Notwithstanding this, they had boldly glissaded down the Couloir du Lion, J. J. Carrel having his shoeless foot tied up in a pocket handkerchief.

From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper

Once we seemed to have escaped and glissaded swiftly down.

From Leaves in the Wind by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner

Then slipping, feet foremost off the ledge, he glissaded down on his back, bending his knees at the exact moment when his feet thudded heavily on to the sand.

From The Mistress of Shenstone by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay

We glissaded down the first few hundred feet, till we brought up standing at the head of an incipient gorge, likewise smothered in snow.

From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell

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 Aug. 26, 2019

They roll out a cake for the dancing duos, who pucker up and blow out the candles before glissading into a waltz.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now they can, on a U.S. tour with the Ice Capades, which features the pair glissading and grinning all the way.

From Time Magazine Archive

A dark speck had suddenly detached itself from the ball upon which the vane stood, and could now be seen glissading with horrible swiftness down the slope of the spire.

From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Laurence Housman

“The snow is often a little treacherous in a place like this, herr; and as it is so loose we shall have to be careful about glissading when we get beyond the rocks yonder.”

From The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps by Frederic William Burton




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