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glissade

[gli-sahd, -sayd] / 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

Regulus wriggled from side to side, glissaded down one dune, up another.

From The Tarn of Eternity by Frank Tymon

Once we seemed to have escaped and glissaded swiftly down.

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

As he did so two of her companions came sliding down to their assistance, and the four glissaded back to the deck-house amidst several inches of very cold water as the following roll began.

From The Dust of Conflict by Harold Bindloss

Happily we had an easy course down a snow gradient, which we glissaded in very unorthodox style.

From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

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

“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

The single-line track was cut out of the rock and one ran a risk of glissading down to the river by venturing outside its edge.

From Carmen's Messenger by Harold Bindloss




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